| Name: | Wiveka Kauppila |
| Year of birth: | 1958 |
| County: |
Southwest Finland |
| Title: | Nurse, M.Pol.Sc. |
| Email: | wivekakauppila@icloud.com |
Member in:
Wiveka
Kauppila
Southwest Finland
"Together – for sustainable and equitable service and care for all"
I am 67 years old, married, and a proud mother of three adult children and three wonderful grandchildren.
My entire career has been in social and health care, starting as a nurse at the pediatric ICU before moving into leadership roles as a care manager and administrative supervisor for the Hospital District of Southwest Finland.
Over the years, I have worked diligently to improve the welfare of children, young people, and families, and I have been active in the development of the wellbeing services counties both locally and nationally.
Now as a retiree, I see several common denominators between the aging population and children and young people. Currently, I serve as the chair of the Swedish Pensioners' Association of Finland to actively monitor and guide the development of the rights of the elderly population.
Through various positions of trust, I have always had a particular focus on creating a society where everyone, regardless of age or background, has the opportunity to live a fulfilling and dignified life.
The importance of language in healthcare has always held a special place in my work. As an administrative chief nurse and later as a special expert within Varha, I have been involved in developing language programs that strengthen and enable our customers' rights and access to services in their native language. The language programs also serve as knowledge transmitters to increase understanding and benefits of a bilingual Finland.
With my background as a nurse, care manager, and quality developer, I want to actively work for a welfare system that is qualitative, economically sustainable, but at the same time fair and accessible to all. I am driven by a vision of a future where we together build a society where no one is left behind.
Important political topics
High-quality health care
Finland has a high-quality healthcare system, and it is our responsibility to ensure that it remains so in the future. Care pathways and processes must be sustainable and of high quality from preventive, primary to specialized care. We must invest in the competence and well-being of the staff. We must continuously research and develop care. Collaborate across borders both nationally and internationally. The patient is always in focus, and we are attentive to their needs.
Safe elderly care
Our population is aging and has the right to a fulfilling and secure life and should not be treated as a homogeneous group but as individuals with different needs depending on their life situation. Economic security, safe housing, and a functioning social network are everyone's fundamental rights.
Thriving children, adolescents and families
The future of Finland lies in our children and youth. We are obliged to maintain a functioning system that supports families and their rights to daycare, school, and education. Low-threshold services should be easily accessible, and children and youth with special needs should have the opportunity for additional support. Work that prevents exclusion and bullying must be supported. Knowledge on how families can balance positive and negative emotions, how to feel satisfaction with life, and have good social relationships must be taught and prioritized.
Candidates answers in election machine
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Is the Kaskisbacken Health Center (formerly Åboland Hospital) needed?
We need a health center that can provide high-quality care in Swedish and Finnish in Turku and for the surrounding municipalities of Turku.
2 / 14
Should Varha increase the language supplement (Swedish language) for employees?
Languageuse allowances should be divided into three different levels, according to the level of responsibility and the nature of the task. Languageambassadors should be adequately compensated for their work
3 / 14
Should Varha invest more in professional firefighting services than in voluntary ones?
193 / 5 000 The professional fire department needs sufficient resources to be able to lead and control the volunteer, but the volunteer is a prerequisite for a comprehensive and functioning rescue service.
4 / 14
There should be more mobile services, such as health buses and remote consultations.
Health buses provide an opportunity to reach the population also in sparsely populated areas that may otherwise be difficult to staff. Remote consultations are an excellent opportunity for many to reach the service provider more quickly. However, the possibility of physical meetings must always exist.
5 / 14
Wellbeing services counties must increase investments in preventive healthcare, even if it means that other types of care receive fewer resources.
The whole is most important. The funds should be distributed so that the desired goals are achieved. Data analysis and impact assessment are required and follow-up of the measures taken. All parts of the process are important and interact with each other.
6 / 14
A personal doctor system should be introduced to improve continuity of care, even if it requires extra resources for a while.
It is a proven concept that benefits the patient and is cost-effective. We must create an appreciative and attractive work environment that prevents physician turnover.
7 / 14
Wellbeing services counties should prohibit the use of temporary agency doctors.
In some justified cases, temporary doctors may be the only option to provide the necessary service. In the long run, the temporary doctor business is not sustainable.
8 / 14
More shelter spaces should be established to help individuals subjected to violence.
There must be enough places to receive families urgently. The continued work on individual care pathways to ensure that the violence ends is important.
9 / 14
To shorten waiting times, wellbeing services counties should increase the use of service vouchers.
Service tickets are an alternative that gives the customer the opportunity to choose and can shorten the queue situation for the customer. If there are alternative solutions and the processes work, a queue does not form.
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Healthcare should be centralized if it saves money or improves quality.
Quality care is the most important thing and saves both money and suffering. A local service point with access to information must be guaranteed, as a functioning ambulance and taxi service 24 hours a day. Local circumstances must be taken into account and the activities must be planned as a separate whole that promotes the need on site.
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Funding and resources for rescue services should be prioritized higher, even if it means cuts in other sectors.
The whole should be considered - all forms of service are important and only one cannot be prioritized.
12 / 14
Undocumented migrants should have the right to non-urgent healthcare.
Is a part of Human Rights! Everyone has the right to healthcare.
13 / 14
More emphasis should be placed on training healthcare staff in gender diversity and sexual diversity.
No one should be discriminated because of gender, language or culture, and knowledge of these is needed.
14 / 14
If you could give a superpower to your future political leader, what would it be?
I hope that all decision-makers have wisdom, are responsive, and make their decisions that are well-motivated and based on the person, the patient, the client.