Specialist health service, general care, 2000

From 1999 to 2000 the number of inpatient stays in hospitals declined, while the number of outpatient treatments increased by 4.9 per cent.

Man-years performed by medical doctors increased by almost 3 per cent, that is a little more than 200 man-years from 1999 to 2000. Nurses had a small increase in man-years while auxiliary nurses had some decline. Man-years counted for personnel working in administrative, technical and service functions also decreased slightly. Of other healthpersonnel with higher education, the radiographs had an increase of almost 4.5 man-years.

More personnel and higher skills from 1990 to 2000

If we look at the period from 1990 until 2000, there has been a solid growth of almost 26 percent in man-years in general hospitals. It is university trained and other kinds of higher educated health personnel that have increased the most. Man-years for doctors rose by approximately 55 per cent, corresponding to 2 500 man-years. The number of nurses increased by 6700 or 43 per cent. Other higher educated personnel like bioengineers, physiotherapist radiographs and occupational therapists also increased sharply during this period. Of these, bioengineers are now the biggest group with nearly 3100 man-years. Auxiliary nurses had a decline in the number of man-years both during the eighties and nineties.

Tables:

• Table 1 Number of calculated man-years in general (somatic) institutions, by category of personnel. 1990-2000
• Table 2 Number of calculated man-years in general (somatic) hospitals, by category of personnel. 1980-2000
• Table 3 Number of calculated man-years in general hospitals, by category of personnel and county. 2000
• Table 4 Number of beds in general hospitals, by county. 1990-2000
• Table 5 Number of beds in general hospitals, by type of department. 1990-2000
• Table 6 Number of outpatient consultations in general hospitals, by county. 1990-2000
• Table 7 Discharges, by type of institution. 1990-2000
• Table 8 Number of bed-days, by type of institution. 1990-2000
• Table 9 Number of out-patient consultations, by type of hospital. 1990-2000
• Table 10 Number of discharges from general hospitals, by the hospital's county of administration. 1990- 2000
• Table 11 Number of bed-days in general hospitals, by the hospital's county of administration. 1990-2000
• Table 12 Number of discharges from general hospitals, by the patients' county of residence. 1990-2000
• Table 13 Number of bed-days in general hospitals, by the patients' county of residence. 1990-2000