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Municipal care services approaching NOK 100 billion
In 2012 NOK 95 billion were spent on municipal care services. This includes new municipal tasks at NOK 5 billion following the Coordination Reform introduced 1 January 2012. However even without the Coordination Reform the municipal expenditure was up 8 per cent from 2011.
2012 | 2011-2012 | 2009-2012 | |
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Users of care services | Percentage change | ||
1The figures has been corrected 1 July 2013. | |||
Total | 271 530 | 1.0 | 1.9 |
Users of home help only | 42 141 | -2.8 | -7.0 |
Users of home nursing only | 73 349 | 4.5 | 10.3 |
Users of both home help and home nursing | 63 230 | -0.5 | 0.9 |
Residents in institutions, short term stay | 9 898 | 7.7 | 3.1 |
Residents in institutions, long term stay | 34 013 | -0.6 | -2.3 |
Other home-based services | 48 899 | 1.3 | 2.9 |
Nursing and care institutions | |||
Beds1 | 41 732 | 1,1 | 1,0 |
Percentage of private beds | 9.6 | -1.9 | -7.4 |
Percentage of user adapted single rooms including bathroom/WC in institutions | 77.5 | 0.0 | |
Weekly physician hours per resident in nursing homes | 0.43 | 10.3 | 26.5 |
Care staff | |||
Full-time equivalent | 131 179.95 | 1.8 | 6.2 |
Percentage of man-years within user directed services with health/social educat | 74 | 1.4 | 2.8 |
Andel legemeldt sykefravær av totalt antall kommunale årsverk i brukerrettet tj | 9.0 | 5.9 | .. |
Expenditure in municipal care services | |||
Care services | 90 207 982 | 8.4 | 20.6 |
Coordination Reform | 5 177 501 | . | . |
There is little reason to expect a large impact on services this shortly after the reform, however there seems to be a tendency towards more use of short-time beds in institutions. While the number of such residents increased by 700 during 2012, the number of long-term residents decreased by 200.
More consumers and man-years
In addition to the Coordination Reform , demographic issues have an influence on the use of services. The generation of the post-war baby boom is now entering the pension age, calling for increasingly more care services.
From 2011 to 2012, the number of full-time equivalents increased by 2 per cent to 131 000. This more than compensates for the increase in number of users. The percentage of employees with health education is increasing softly and steadily, and reached 74 per cent in 2012.
Increase in commercially run nursing homes
The number of nursing home beds increased by 450 to almost 40 300. Approximately 1 400 beds in retirement homes are added to this number. The private percentage of the total number of beds is stable at 10 per cent. However, more beds are now run commercially, fewer by non-profit organisations. An institution bed costs about NOK 1 million, or almost NOK 3 000 per day.
This page has been discontinued, see Care services, Annually.
Contact
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Dag Ragnvald Abrahamsen
E-mail: dag.ragnvald.abrahamsen@ssb.no
tel.: (+47) 40 90 25 46
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Øyvind Isachsen Berntsen
E-mail: oyvind.berntsen@ssb.no
tel.: (+47) 40 90 23 28
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Bjarne Tautra Hoen
E-mail: bjarne.hoen@ssb.no
tel.: (+47) 40 90 25 99
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Linda M. Allertsen
E-mail: linda.allertsen@ssb.no
tel.: (+47) 97 09 97 51