Already now, a digital assessment tool is being used at night, but the idea is to use the tool also during the day. The company motivates the change with resource waste when the patient has to meet both a nurse and a doctor. But from, among others, the Medical Association, one is critical and means that it will instead imply unnecessary and costly doctor visits.
One cannot replace nurses in this way. It will be wrong for the patient and for the regions' bleeding economy, says Marina Tuutma, chairman of the Medical Association, and points out that a doctor visit costs almost twice as much as a nurse visit for the regions.
According to information to SVT, there is also concern within Doktor24 about patient safety, something that CEO Matilda Lundblad, however, believes there is no basis for.
We have not had any significant deviations that have shown patient risk, she says to SVT.
