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Psychiatric care expenditures grow faster than somatic counterpart
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Specialist health service, accounts1999

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Psychiatric care expenditures grow faster than somatic counterpart

The final figures for 1999 show that the gross operating expenditures of the specialist health service increased by nearly 9 per cent from 1998 to 1999. The expenditures of somatic institutions increased by 8 per cent, while the expenditures of psychiatric institutions increased by 9 per cent.

Expenditures in the specialist health service increased overall by nearly 9 per cent from 1998 to 1999. From 1990 to 1999 expenditures rose an average of 7 per cent per year. A total of almost NOK 40 billion was spent on the specialist health service in 1999. This is equivalent to about NOK 9 000 per capita, an increase of NOK 660 from 1998.

 Specialist health service expenditure 1990 to 1999,  NOK 1 000

Expenditures were split 80/20, with 80 per cent going to somatic institutions and 20 per cent to psychiatric institutions in 1999. This ratio has not changed significantly in the 1990s. Around NOK 31.7 billion was spent on somatic institutions providing specialist health services in 1999, an increase of NOK 25 billion from the year before. 98 per cent of this went to somatic hospitals.

Psychiatric hospitals spent NOK 8.3 billion in 1999, NOK 0.7 billion more than in 1998. 88 per cent of the expenditures of psychiatric institutions went to adult psychiatry. Expenditures in adult psychiatry grew by 9.5 per cent from 1998 to 1999, while child and adolescent psychiatry grew by 8 per cent from 1998 to 1999.

1990-1999 has seen an average growth in expenditures of just over 6 per cent per year at psychiatric institutions. The national commitment to improved psychiatric services brought about faster growth towards the close of the 1990s compared with the start of the period. Growth was particularly strong from 1997 to 1998, when it hit 13 per cent.

Wages and salaries including social costs make up the largest expenditure item in the specialist health service, accounting for 73 per cent of gross operating expenditures in 1999. Psychiatric institutions have somewhat higher expenditures on wages and salaries than somatic institutions. In adult psychiatry, salaries and wages accounted for 78 per cent of gross operating expenditures, while salaries and wages made up 82 per cent of gross operating expenditures in child and adult psychiatry. Salaries and wages accounted for 73 per cent of gross operating expenditures in somatic institutions.

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