It is in the drug field that there has been the greatest decrease in waiting time, new figures show The Institute of Public Health.
For interdisciplinary specialized drug treatment, waiting times have been reduced by six days, to 28 days. That is four days shorter than the year before the pandemic.
But although it is good that many who have waited a long time are now receiving treatment, the average waiting times are still too long, writes the government in a press release.
– For the first time in 2024, we see that the waiting time is lower for all specialist areas than at the same time last year, but the work must be intensified in order for us to reach the targets for next year, says Health and Care Minister Jan Christian Vestre (Ap).
But the waiting time has not decreased in all areas. For the subject area of ​​somatics, the waiting time has increased by two days, so that the waiting time is 82 days.
And although the waiting time has decreased in many other specialist areas, the figures show that the average waiting time for health care has increased by two days. It is now 79 days against last year’s 77.5 days.
The reason for this is that many long-term patients enter the statistics, and that more waiting in the largest subject area, somatics, drags the average up, according to the government.
For mental health care for adults, the waiting period has been reduced by one day to 50 days, and for children it has decreased by four days, to 45 days.
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