Støre Faces Majority Opposition – NRK Norway News

– The goal is to put in place a decision to scrap the so -called health enterprise model.

Vedum inspects the Center Party’s new offices. The fact that his parliamentary group has shrunk from 28 to 9 in the elections has done nothing with the ambitions:

Vedum will now use its position in the Storting to fight for Norwegian hospitals to come under clearly elected control.

Sp wants the state and the minister to have the direct responsibility, and that the Storting should adopt a clear hospital plan.

Then today’s health enterprise model – which means that the state owns the hospitals through state -owned health enterprises – is wound up.

– The health trusts are pushed in front to centralize. Then there is a “health institution” that will make those decisions, and then one should try to have them at arm’s length from the policy, says Vedum.

That then comes to the core of it he thinks is the most important thing in a new model:

– Where are you going to have maternity? Where should you have food? Where should you have emergency preparedness? It is a political responsibility.

Mobilization

In Lærdal and Nordfjord, it is now mobilized to stop the cut that Helse Førde has recently proposed. The injury outpatient clinics at the hospitals in Nordfjord and Lærdal are proposed to be discontinued. Also, maternity offers can get cuts.

This afternoon, Vedum gets a tour of Lærdal hospital, where he will meet Helse Førde’s top manager Arve Varden and union representatives. Tonight there is a meeting in Lærdal.

– It is completely wrong to centralize maternity and damage outpatient clinic, which is now proposed, says Vedum.

He believes this type of cut is happening because politicians have abdicated and left the management of the hospitals to directors and bureaucrats.

Recently, it became clear that the Center Party will chair the Health and Care Committee at the Storting.
This is where the battle for a new management model for the hospitals will stand.

According to NRK’s ​​experience, Deputy Chairman Kjersti Toppe will become committee chair.

The SP veteran, who himself is a doctor, is thus given responsibility for the fight against the health enterprise model.

– plural in the Storting

For the first time in over 20 years, there has now been a majority to scrap the health trusts, Vedum stated recently to VG.

But then he has to get most opposition parties – including a record -breaking Frp.

– The starting point for Frp is that we want to remove the regional health authorities, which have become large, bureaucratic mastodons, says Frp’s health politician Bård Hoksrud to NRK.

The party has its own model and disagrees with Sp about how much political governance it should be.

– Is it possible to get a common front among the opposition parties?

– I think there may be some opportunities. I know there are more people who want to take the initiative. And then Frp is clear that we have our solution and our model, says Hoksrud.

In addition to Frp, Vedum will also be free to SV, Red, MDG and KrF.

– Why didn’t Sp did this when you were in government?

– These were things that we disagreed with the Labor Party.

NRK has been in contact with the Ministry of Health and Care Services on SP’s proposal.

The Ministry points out that Minister of Health and Care Jan Christian Vestre (Ap) has set up a health reform committee to investigate and propose new models for the organization, management and financing of the health sector.

Lack of money

Helse Førde justifies its cut proposals with a budget deficit of NOK 103 million so far this year.

– When you sit in opposition, do you have money for anything?

– We make sure it didn’t happen when we were in government. This came the week after the election, says Vedum.

– The state and the minister must have the direct responsibility. And we have also thought that one should have a clear hospital plan in the Storting, so that the Storting is accountable for the decisions one makes. It also has a cost when making unpopular decisions. That’s it.

– So a centralized control from Oslo over the Norwegian hospital structure, that’s what the Center Party wants?

– We want a people elected, clear control.