It is in the new report on BB in Lycksele that consultant Anders Sylvan and chief physician Sofie Jakobsson highlight turnkey contracting for the maternity operations in Lycksele as a possible measure to prevent a permanent closure.
This would mean that the region procures a consulting company that takes total responsibility for the staffing of doctors and midwives. The procurement process would then have to be speeded up, to avoid a longer closure.
“Must open the wallet”
A calculation of what this solution could cost is missing, but the investigators state that “it will mean that the cost per birth in Lycksele will be significantly higher for a long time to come than at the other two hospitals”.
Erika Broman Häggblad, chairman of the Association of Midwives in Västerbotten, welcomes the proposal to bring in consulting company help as it would be combined with introducing the so-called “Lyckselemodellen” in the business.
– I think it is now up to politics to add resources so that we can seriously investigate and implement a Happiness Harness model. If they want a reopened birth in Lycksele – which we want – they simply have to open their wallets, says Erika Broman Häggblad.
Hear Brita Winsa comment on the proposal in the clip above.