Acute Staff Shortage Cancels 660 Ambulance Trips in Västernorrland

According to the newspaper, the nurses are not enough to man all the vehicles. This despite the fact that ambulance care in the region will become increasingly important when the emergency services at Sollefteå hospital are closed down – something that is expected to lead to over 1,000 more transports per year.

To meet the increased need, nursing assistants are now being intensively trained to become ambulance nurses, a professional category that the region abolished ten years ago.

We have had challenging years with staff shortages. The decision to competence-switch in ambulance nurses has contributed to me seeing more positively that we will succeed in scaling up so that we can meet the increased need, says the region's ambulance chief Peter Neuman to Arbetet.