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Specialist health service, general care, 2003

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Stable number of beds

At year-end 2003 there were approximately 14 200 beds in somatic hospitals. On national level this is a marginal growth from 2002. The average length of stay is becoming shorter, but more patients are treated, both with regard to day treatments, out-patient consultations and overnight stays.

Some hospitals and health enterprises have gone through more extensive changes in the last few years. This is related to the Norwegian Hospital Reform, which was introduced in January 2002 and has led to further reorganisations in 2003.

Somatic hospitals. 1990-2003. Key figures
  1990 1995 2000 2001 2002 2003
Beds 16 040 14 534 13 944 13 945 514 161       14 208
Discharges      614 919      641 135      694 703      724 635      741 581  783 529
Bed-days in 1 000 4 519 4 255 4 164 4 205 4 203 4 205
Out-patient consultations in 1 0003 2 547 3 033 3 591 3 582 63 080 3 315
Day-cases in 1 0004          358  419
Man-years1, total 46 508 50 130 58 522 59 406 61 239 63 155
Man-years1, physicians 4 576 5 402 7 073 7 242 7 291 7 592
Man-years1, nurses and midwives 15 614 18 457 22 343 22 518 23 451 24 157
Man-years1, high-school educated personnel2 3 802 4 542 5 615 5 867 5 976 6 328
Man-years1, auxiliary nursing personnel 6 629 5 536 5 216 5 075 5 097 5 115
Man-years1, other occupational therapists  689  516  772  854  955 1 422
Man-years1, administration and service 14 974 15 420 17 170 17 507 18 097 18 097
1  Man-years is the number of full-time employees and part-time employees (converted to full-time employees) at
the end of the year. Overtime is not included.
2  Physiotherapists, medical laboratory technicians, radiographers and occupational therapists.
3  From 2002, data from Norwegian Patient Register (NPR) is used.
4  Day-cases were incuded in out-patient consultations until 2002.
5  Corrected 20 October 2003.
6  Corrected since publishing in 2002.

See also: Specialist health service. 2003

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