Dec 21, 2023 at 12:46 Update: 28 minutes ago
In ten years’ time, the healthcare sector will probably have 190,000 to 195,000 too few employees. This is stated in a forecast shared by outgoing healthcare minister Conny Helder on Thursday.
The shortage will mainly increase after 2025, because more and more people will need care. In the meantime, employees are leaving healthcare and not enough new employees are returning from training.
The shortage is growing, especially in nursing homes. That sector already needs 14,000 extra people. That number probably rises to over 50,000 and perhaps even to almost 65,000.
There is now a shortage of approximately 5,000 people in home care and in ten years there will probably be a shortage of 27,000 employees. The expected shortage in hospitals also increases from 5,000 to 27,000.
Trade union FNV Zorg & Welzijn warns “that there is a threat of a healthcare infarction in 2033” and that it will then be permanently “code black” in hospitals. Director Elise Merlijn wonders how healthcare can maintain a human scale with such shortages.
According to the union, one of the solutions is to make work in healthcare more attractive through better employment conditions and less work pressure.
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