After the high-profile murder in Boden on Christmas Day last year, Minister of Social Affairs Jakob Forssmed (KD) said that there was a need to review the law. And now an investigation will be appointed, wrote Forssmed, Minister of Social Services Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M), and Lina Nordquist, healthcare policy spokesperson for L, in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter .
According to them, healthcare today fluctuates between complete coercion and total freedom.
“For seriously ill and frail patients, this swing between extremes creates serious risks,” they write.
Among other things, the investigation will develop proposals for how the rules can be changed so that compulsory care does not always have to begin in a closed ward.
The government also wants to enable more forms of intermediate care and increase opportunities for phased compulsory care.
