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Stable number of beds in somatic hospitals
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Specialist health service, general care, 2004

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Stable number of beds in somatic hospitals

There were 14 200 beds in Norwegian somatic hospitals by the end of 2004, nearly unchanged compared to 2003. During the same period personnel in hospitals increased by 0.5 per cent. Out-patient consultations and day-treatment are still increasing, 4.3 and 9.5 per cent respectively.

Somatic hospitals. 1990-2004. Key figures
  1990 1995 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Beds 16 040       14 534       13 944       13 945       514 161       14 208       14 228
Discharges  614 919  641 135  694 703  724 635  741 581  783 529  796 493
Bed-days in 1 000 4 519 4 255 4 164 4 205 4 203 4 205 4 128
Out-patient consultations in 1 0003 2 547 3 033 3 591 3 582 63 080 3 315 3 362
Day-cases in 1 0004          358  419  459
Man-years1, total 46 508 50 130 58 522 59 406 61 239 63 155 63 498
Man-years1, physicians 4 576 5 402 7 073 7 242 7 291 7 592 7 922
Man-years1, nurses and midwives 15 614 18 457 22 343 22 518 23 451 24 157 24 543
Man-years1, high-school educated personnel2 3 802 4 542 5 615 5 867 5 976 6 328 6 384
Man-years1, auxiliary nursing personnel 6 629 5 536 5 216 5 075 5 097 5 115 4 819
Man-years1, other occupational therapists  689.00  516.00  772.00  854.00  955 1 422 1 788
Man-years1, administration and service 14 974 15 420 17 170 17 507 18 097 18 097 17 638
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. I addtion Statistics Norway gathered information on out-patient consultations in private hospitals for 2002 and 2003, 34 679 and 93 127 consultations respectively. This information is not included in the figures for 2004.
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, 2004 .

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