| Name: | Päivi Puntila |
| Year of birth: | 1969 |
| County: |
West Uusimaa |
| Town: | Espoo |
| Title: | Business development director |
| Email: | paivi.puntila@iki.fi |
| Phone: | 0405620088 |
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Päivi
Puntila
West Uusimaa
"Health centers open longer, more general practitioner GPs and in outpatient care multidisciplinary teams of specialized doctors. Comprehensive care."
Business Development Director
- Espoo city councilor
- Mother of three children
- M.Sc., TAM, technical yo
I chose SFP because its centre-right, liberal and humane values match my own.
I am also running in the municipal elections
Visit the profile pageImportant political topics
Functioning social welfare
Health centers need to be open longer in the evenings and on weekends to shift focus from expensive emergency services to primary care.
The success of the family doctor model with GPs will require increasing the number of GPs in different ways.
Improving continuity of care will enable more digital forms of care, reducing costs and improving outcomes.
In my experience in the Netherlands, with its 15 million inhabitants, this type of system works best.
High-quality health care
Around 25,000 people under 35 receive a disability pension. This is too many young people. These patients often feel like a burden on the healthcare system and society. Their care in outpatient units is often based on a nurse-doctor model, with frequent changes of doctors. This needs to change to achieve better outcomes.
In outpatient care, we need to develop truly multidisciplinary medical teams and embrace a holistic approach to the patient.
A truly multidisciplinary outpatient team would mean that specialist doctors from different disciplines work together to look at the patient as a whole, based on the patient's condition.
This would allow finding the real causes of diseases and solutions, rather than just alleviating the symptoms. It has been shown worldwide that multidisciplinary medical teams produce better clinical outcomes than professionals working alone.
Such teams enable better outcomes and support patients' ability to work and even get better.
Candidates answers in election machine
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Ambulance services should receive more resources so that the number of ambulances in the region increases rather than decreases.
Since the decision was made to close the night emergency services in Tammisaari and the births in Lohja, ambulance services need to be made to function better. Journeys within Western Uusimaa are long, Hanko-Espoo is a 2-hour drive.
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Services should be maintained in the regional hospitals in Raseborg and Lohja.
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The wellbeing services county of West Uusimaa should allocate more resources to language supplements to encourage staff to provide services in Swedish.
According to the collective agreement, employees must be paid a five percent language bonus for each language they speak.
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There should be more mobile services, such as health buses and remote consultations.
I would prefer to encourage local towns to have their own health centers, because local services are agile and efficient. Digital reception would serve best in a family doctor system, where there is continuity between the patient and the doctor. But in some sparsely populated areas, mobile services and remote reception could serve sick patients best.
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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.
For the elderly, it would be a good idea to invest in blood tests so that developing diseases can be identified early. Preventive drug or physiotherapy treatment is especially important when a person already has a disease that threatens to develop new serious health problems. Prevention also includes flu vaccines, etc.
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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.
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Wellbeing services counties should prohibit the use of temporary agency doctors.
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More shelter spaces should be established to help individuals subjected to violence.
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To shorten waiting times, wellbeing services counties should increase the use of service vouchers.
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Healthcare should be centralized if it saves money or improves quality.
Based on my experience with centralized and decentralized business, I strongly believe that local services with smaller teams are more agile and efficient. Centralization also requires greater administration. Germany and Sweden have already dismantled the once centralized system.
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Funding and resources for rescue services should be prioritized higher, even if it means cuts in other sectors.
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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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