Kenneth
Nylund
Ostrobothnia
"The right care, at the right time and in the right place, whether you are a newborn or an elderly person"
After four terms as an elected representative in the municipality, I thought that I could also have something to contribute in the welfare area.
I am an association person who has worked with computer systems of various kinds throughout my working life.
My family includes my wife and two grown-up children and our cats Simba and Nala.
For four years I have worked as a carer for my ageing father with various illneses in an employment relationship with the welfare sector.
For a few years now, I have been the chairman of Nykarleby Hjärtförening r.f., which is a very good example of how the third sector can also contribute to preventive care.
Candidates answers in election machine
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It is important that the wellbeing services county of Ostrobothnia has a central hospital with full emergency services.
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The geographical distance to services is more important than whether the services are located within municipal boundaries.
In cases of urgent care needs, the shortest time to care must always prevail.
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There should be more mobile services, such as health buses and remote consultations.
As heavy care needs to be centralised for cost and efficiency reasons, mobile services and remote consultations are becoming increasingly important.
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Wellbeing services counties must increase investments in preventive healthcare, even if it means that other types of care receive fewer resources.
Individual municipalities and the third sector, which are closer to people, need to take responsibility and receive state resources for preventive health care.
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A personal doctor system should be introduced to improve continuity of care, even if it requires extra resources for a while.
A system of private doctors and nurses for the elderly and those with a continuous need for care needs to be created, as the possibility of visiting the same familiar doctor creates security.
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Wellbeing services counties should prohibit the use of temporary agency doctors.
Banning locum physicians altogether may jeopardise patient safety but their use needs to be limited where possible.
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More shelter spaces should be established to help individuals subjected to violence.
Yes, if the number of places is too low in relation to the need.
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To shorten waiting times, wellbeing services counties should increase the use of service vouchers.
Yes, if there are private and third sector organisations that can provide care using vouchers.
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Healthcare should be centralized if it saves money or improves quality.
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Funding and resources for rescue services should be prioritized higher, even if it means cuts in other sectors.
There needs to be a balance in the whole so that different sectors would not have to be set against each other.
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Undocumented migrants should have the right to non-urgent healthcare.
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More emphasis should be placed on training healthcare staff in gender diversity and sexual diversity.
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