Cost pressure: lack of staff in maternity wards – salzburg.ORF.at
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Salzburg’s hospitals are having increasing problems staffing their gynecological departments. When someone is expecting or sick, it becomes increasingly difficult to set rosters. Many physicians change in private practices.
Since the staff shortage in gynecology in Tamsweg (Lungau) has been a topic again and in Schwarzach (Pongau) the primary and three doctors have also resigned, nervousness is also increasing in other hospitals. The hospital management wants to accommodate their doctors in order to keep them. The tendency to establish an ordination is stronger among gynecologists and gynecologists than in other subjects.
In Salzburg there are 95 resident doctors in surgeries, says the spokeswoman for the resident gynaecologists, Gunda Schulz-Greinwald: “It is the task of the hospital management to bind colleagues through appreciation. Not by pressure. Not by ever fewer staff. It won’t go well sooner or later.”
Only one applicant
Only one doctor who runs an ordination has volunteered to help out in the Tamsweg obstetrics department. During childbirth, the routine process can also become an extreme situation, in which specialists then need routine and self-confidence, says gynecologist Michaela Boeckl from Salzburg: “If you have to go from the practice to the hospital in Tamsweg, it’s not easy. You are a long way from many things in the hospital in practice. Especially when it comes to obstetrics, you can’t take on that responsibility.”
Physicians opt for elective medical practices
It used to be that gynecologists could not get health insurance offices, but things have changed for about 15 years, and doctors are increasingly opting for private medical practices. In any case, obstetrics has become a high-risk business, say doctors. Decisions often have to be made alone. If a department is not managed perfectly, there are immediate complaints.
Cost pressure on the maternity wards
The gynecology stations in the hospitals in the federal state hardly find any staff