Crisis situation at Swedish hospitals

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).Health care in Sweden is largely tax-funded, a system that ensures everyone equal access to health care services. Challenges include funding, quality and efficiency of its health care services.

A report on Swedish television in 2017 about the state of the country's healthcare system has shocked the population. For years hospitals have been suffering from nursing staff shortages, beds have been left unoccupied and patients face long waiting times for operations. And according to the report the problems have taken on life-threatening proportions in many areas. Newspapers in Sweden take the politicians to task.

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

Wikipedia: Healthcare in Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Sweden

Sweden: Swedish Institute: Health care in Sweden https://sweden.se/society/health-care-in-sweden/

The Local.se, 25.01.15: 'Sweden's healthcare is an embarrassment' https://www.thelocal.se/20150127/swedens-health-care-is-a-shame-to-the-country

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