As of Monday afternoon, the conflict between Vårdförbundet and the employers’ side was extended to 29 municipalities.
In a risk analysis submitted by SKR to the mediators, it is assessed that the measures will have a “major impact” within, among other things, elderly care.
– This will probably hit säbo, elderly care and home care the hardest, says Johan Kaarme, head of SKR’s health and medical care department.
– There are other parts that are also covered, but these are 24/7 operations that are very resource-intensive and important.
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Not being able to order overtime may mean that the municipalities will not be able to carry out parts of their mission, SKR writes in the analysis.
– In special housing, in elderly care and home care, things can happen or users have certain needs that make it difficult for the individual employee to leave the user there and leave. This can sometimes lead to overtime. Such measures are becoming more difficult to do now, says Kaarme.
According to Dagens Samhälle, approximately 400 planned and non-urgent operations have been canceled or moved forward during the weeks that the overtime blockade has been in place.
Region Stockholm believes that the situation in healthcare is manageable, but that it will become more strained during the summer if the blockade continues:
“It also means that we may have to review the vacation planning for our employees,” writes Chief Medical Officer Johan Bratt in an email to TT.
“Wide Impact”
Region Västerbotten states that the blockade “implies an extensive impact on health care”.
The new notice, which applies from Monday, affects approximately 5,000 members and concerns, among other things, student health, home health care and medically responsible nurses.
The union’s overtime and new hiring blockade that began on April 25 means that approximately 63,000 members do not work overtime in the country’s regions and within the ambulance healthcare in Greater Stockholm.