It will be a lean year for the patients at Aarhus university Hospital.
the Hospital is to get a deficit in 2019 of up to 425 million dollars. It means, therefore, that one has to find 325 million dollars to stop the big hole in the budget.
write DR.
– Many different factors have pressed the hospital’s economy in recent years. Therefore, we see no other option than to launch a fierce economic action plan, which inevitably will have undesirable consequences for the hospital, write the hospital manager, Poul Blaabjerg, in an email to the staff.
Of the 325 million to be saved, 305 million available in the departments, while savings have to be made 20 million on administration.
the Savings is due according to the hospitalsdirektøren, Aarhus university Hospital have had to collect all his activities in Skejby, and that the saving of eight percent. It is, however, not succeeded, partly because the move has been expensive.
Steward Jacob Gøtzsche says to the DR Østjylland, that there is a fundamental is something wrong with the hospital’s economy.
– I think that now we stand here again. We still have severe economic difficulties, and it will go beyond the nurses, health care assistants-the assistants and doctors, we have employed – and not least the patients, he says to the DR Østjylland.
In connection with the savings fear both the officer and hospitalsdirektøren that patients must wait longer to get treatment.
what Exactly are the departments that should be saved, should the hospital find out over the next few weeks.