Skills Supply

The plan stipulates that hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost from care and support and demands more resources for health and medical care and investments in staff to eliminate staff shortages. The state shall take greater responsibility for creating equal conditions and primary care is underdeveloped. A comprehensive national initiative on welfare's workforce planning, including more specialist nurses, thus aligns with the plan.

• investment in care staffdecisive»Därför vill Vänsterpartiet satsa mer resurser på hälso- och sjukvården och äldreomsorgen, samt satsa på personalen så att vi samtidigt får bort personalbristen och stärker personalens villkor och arbetsmiljö.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Therefore the Left Party wants to invest more resources in health and medical care and elderly care, and invest in staff so that we simultaneously eliminate staff shortages and strengthen staff conditions and work environment.”
• state responsibility for equal health care»Lösningen är inte att förstatliga sjukvården men för att säkerställa en jämlik vård i Sverige måste staten ta ett större ansvar för att skapa lika förutsättningar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The solution is not to nationalize health care but to ensure equal health care in Sweden the state must take greater responsibility for creating equal conditions.”
• developed primary care»Men Sverige har idag minst antal vårdplatser i EU och en alldeles för dåligt utbyggd primärvård.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“But Sweden today has the fewest hospital beds in the EU and a far too underdeveloped primary care sector.”
• rebuild welfare staffing»Välfärdsskulden som uppstått innebär att hundratusentals jobb försvunnit ur skola, vård och omsorg sedan 1990-talet, och det behövs en politisk vilja för att successivt börja bygga upp en bättre kvalitet igen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The welfare debt that has arisen means that hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost from schools, care and support since the 1990s, and there is a need for political will to gradually begin rebuilding better quality.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The election manifesto places state responsibility for ensuring skill supply in welfare, states that there is a shortage of properly trained staff in too many places and wants to provide more support for specialist training in healthcare. A comprehensive national approach to welfare skill supply and more advanced specialist nurses is thus directly in line with the plan's commitments.

• state responsibility for skill supplydecisive»Staten har ett ansvar för att säkra kompetensförsörjningen, inte minst i välfärden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The state has responsibility for ensuring skill supply, not least in welfare.”
• support for specialist training»Vi vill se ett språklyft för barnomsorgen och mer stöd till specialistutbildningar i vården, exempelvis för sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to see a language boost for childcare and more support for specialist training in healthcare, for example for nurses and nursing assistants.”
• the staff shortage is acknowledged»På alltför många ställen råder brist på rätt utbildad personal.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“There is a shortage of properly trained staff in too many places.”
• secured access to staff»Säkerställ att det finns utbildad personal att anställa.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Ensure that there is trained staff to employ.”

The plan wants to upgrade healthcare professions with higher salaries and good working conditions and requires that care has sufficient and trained staff. It also wants legitimate professional groups to take increased responsibility so that expertise is better utilized, which is precisely the point of more advanced specialist nurses in primary healthcare. A comprehensive national approach to welfare's supply of expertise is a means for these commitments.

• upgrade healthcare professionsdecisive»höja lönerna och säkra en god arbetsmiljö i vården.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“raise salaries and ensure good working conditions in healthcare.”
• utilize specialist expertise»andra legitimerade yrkeskategorier får möjlighet att ta ökat ansvar« (party programme ↗)“other legitimate professional groups have the opportunity to take increased responsibility”
• investment in primary healthcare»satsa på primärvården och öka tillgången till vård för psykisk ohälsa.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“invest in primary healthcare and increase access to mental health care.”
• trained staff in care»tillräcklig och utbildad personal.« (party programme ↗)“sufficient and trained staff.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan identifies skills recruitment as one of the most important challenges and promises concrete measures: examination bonus and salary during specialist study time to recruit more nurses and the right to skills development for all healthcare staff. A comprehensive national approach with more advanced specialist nurses is exactly this commitment. The plan also connects more nurses to shorter queues and more hospital beds.

• recruit specialist nursesdecisive»Vi vill rekrytera fler sjuksköterskor genom att införa en examenspremie och ge lön under specialiststudietiden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to recruit more nurses by introducing an examination bonus and providing salary during specialist study time.”
• right to skills development»Den som jobbar i vård och omsorg ska kunna växa och vidareutvecklas i sitt yrke. Vi vill ge alla undersköterskor och sjuksköterskor rätt till kompetensutveckling.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Anyone who works in healthcare should be able to grow and develop in their profession. We want to give all nursing assistants and nurses the right to skills development.”
• skills recruitment as key issue»En av de viktigaste utmaningarna för företagen, och för hela Sveriges ekonomi, är den dåligt fungerande kompetensförsörjningen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“One of the most important challenges for companies, and for Sweden's entire economy, is poorly functioning skills recruitment.”
• more nurses shorten queues»Vi vill korta köerna och skapa fler vårdplatser där det behövs genom satsningar på fler sjuksköterskor och bättre statligt stöd till regionerna« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to shorten queues and create more hospital beds where needed through investments in more nurses and better state support to regions.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan requires that the state take greater responsibility for healthcare's strategic planning and long-term workforce supply and that a national coordinated effort be made for more staffed hospital beds throughout the country. A combined national approach to welfare's workforce supply is therefore precisely the plan's commitment, as is a strengthened primary healthcare where more specialist nurses are needed.

• state responsibility for workforce supplydecisive»Staten ska ta ett större ansvar för sjukvårdens strategiska planering, placering av högspecialiserad vård, beredskap och långsiktig kompetensförsörjning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The state shall take greater responsibility for healthcare's strategic planning, placement of highly specialized care, preparedness and long-term workforce supply.”
• national coordinated effort for hospital beds»Vi vill därför nästa mandatperiod se en nationell kraftsamling för fler bemannade vårdplatser i hela landet så att du som patient kan få vård snabbare.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We therefore want to see in the next term of office a national coordinated effort for more staffed hospital beds throughout the country so you as a patient can receive care faster.”
• strengthened primary healthcare»Primärvårdens roll i sjukvårdssystemet ska stärkas.« (party programme ↗)“Primary healthcare's role in the healthcare system shall be strengthened.”
• attractive shortage occupations»Bristyrken ska bli drömjobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Shortage occupations shall become dream jobs.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The election manifesto makes healthcare staffing a main issue: more personnel shall be trained, conditions in shortage occupations improved and the need for hired personnel reduced. The plan also wants to transfer responsibility for healthcare to the state in a common organization, which is the very definition of a coordinated national approach. Expanded primary healthcare and increased medical competence in elderly care support the demand for more specialist nurses where needs are greatest.

• train more healthcare personneldecisive»Utbilda mer personal för sjukvården. Förbättrade villkor i vårdens bristyrken och minska behovet av dyr inhyrd personal.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Train more personnel for healthcare. Improved conditions in healthcare's shortage occupations and reduce the need for expensive hired personnel.”
• state responsibility for healthcare»Avskaffa regionernas ansvar för sjukvården. Låt staten ta över ansvaret för vården med en gemensam organisation i stället för 21 olika.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Abolish the regions' responsibility for healthcare. Let the state take over responsibility for healthcare with a common organization instead of 21 different.”
• expanded primary healthcare»Fler vårdcentraler på landsbygden och enklare för enskilda läkare att starta egen verksamhet - så att vården finns nära till hands.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More health centres in rural areas and easier for individual doctors to start their own operations - so that healthcare is close at hand.”
• competence in elderly care»Ökad medicinsk kompetens inom äldreomsorgen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increased medical competence in elderly care.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan establishes that competence supply must become better and wants to put in place a national coordination of society's need for training places, while care workers should be strengthened with further training and medical expertise in elderly care should be raised. This is substantially the same national approach to welfare competence supply that the counter-proposal demands, including more further trained specialist nurses.

• national competence coordinationdecisive»Få på plats en nationell samordning över samhällets behov av antalet utbildningsplatser för att förbättra kompetensförsörjningen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Put in place a national coordination of society's need for the number of training places to improve competence supply”
• further training in care»Stärka vårdens medarbetare, bland annat genom att förbättra arbetsmiljön och möjligheterna till vidareutbildning« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthen care workers, among other things by improving working conditions and opportunities for further training”
• strengthened expertise in elderly care»Den medicinska kompetensen och kontinuiteten måste stärkas inom äldreomsorgen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Medical expertise and continuity must be strengthened in elderly care.”
• better competence supply»Kompetensförsörjningen på svensk arbetsmarknad måste bli bättre.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Competence supply on the Swedish labor market must become better.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan points out that governance through 21 regions creates shortcomings in skills supply and therefore seeks to review healthcare organisation, with greater state primary responsibility. A coordinated national approach to welfare's skills supply is precisely that conclusion. The plan's investments in primary care and more care places moreover presuppose more personnel with the right skills.

• national approach to skills supplydecisive»Huvudproblemet handlar i betydande utsträckning om att styrningen via 21 olika regioner skapar otydlighet, målkonflikter, successivt ökande administration och brister i kompetensförsörjningen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The main problem consists to a significant extent of governance through 21 different regions creating lack of clarity, goal conflicts, progressively increasing administration and shortcomings in skills supply.”
• state primary responsibility»Sverigedemokraterna vill också se över hur staten i större utsträckning kan ta över huvudansvaret för sjukvården, med utgångspunkt i framgångsrika exempel i Norge och Danmark.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Sweden Democrats also wish to review how the state can to a greater extent take over primary responsibility for healthcare, proceeding from successful examples in Norway and Denmark.”
• strengthened primary care»Satsa på primärvården« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Invest in primary care”
• more care places»Öka antalet vårdplatser« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increase the number of care places”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.