ANPEA care worker helps a resident in a residential care center
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 13:32
Students on care courses should be able to study for free. Professional association V&VN is calling on the government to abolish tuition fees for healthcare students. This should make the training more attractive.
“In addition, we see that nurses and carers build up an enormous salary arrears over their career, also compared to other parts of the public sector, for example education,” says board member Jaap Kappert in the NOS Radio 1 Journal. “This would also be a measure to immediately reduce the salary arrears. Then you will at least have a good start.”
Investments must also be made in training and internship places, says the V&VN in a manifesto. In any case, students should receive a minimum (youth) wage and good supervision. Board member Jaap Kappert: “You really have to take good care of people who work in healthcare.”
Increasing demand
Kappert says that the increasing demand for care due to the aging population cannot be met without drastic measures and substantial investments. Nurses, carers and nurse specialists should also be given more leadership and managers should mainly be given a supporting role.
If healthcare is not organized differently, there will not be room for everyone in the future. Kappert points to the already existing staff shortages, the waiting lists for mental health care and nursing homes and the “time-consuming rules and registrations”.
In the past year, 21,000 extra people started working in healthcare. That is not enough to solve the shortage. This is expected to rise to 135,000 jobs in the coming years.
More people have to work in healthcare than on it, and that ratio is now skewed.
Jaap Kappert, director V&VN
“Healthcare must become more humane and simpler,” says Kappert. “That requires major investments that must be made quickly. In care providers, in nursing home places, district nursing, mental health care and care for the disabled. The pace in The Hague must be increased, otherwise we will be overtaken by demographics. It is inexorable.”
One of the issues that must be addressed is the registration of care, the manifest says. “Abolish pointless registrations.” Healthcare personnel spend a lot of time registering all kinds of things and would like to see this reduced to the bare essentials, such as registrations aimed at good patient care.
“If you knew how much time it takes, for example, with someone with dementia who needs more care, which we all know in advance because unfortunately dementia always progresses in severity, to fill out forms to take care to a higher level, then is that really sad a lot. That’s actually useless administration because we know it’s going to happen.”
Distrust
“The system is too focused on distrust and instead of taking a good look and taking random samples, a whole paperwork has to be worked through for every client. That is a real waste of the time of healthcare professionals.”
Kappert also calls on the government to stop “the useless cutbacks in elderly care”. “What we prefer to see as a professional group is that healthcare professionals and managers work very well together, so that the content of the work and business operations are well aligned.”
2023-08-22 11:32:28
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