From the start of January, the patient fees for a doctor's visit were increased in three Swedish regions, according to the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKR).
People living in Sweden will have access to free primary healthcare over the internet after an online medical practitioner set up a clinic in the Södermanland county, where primary care is free.
A new digital doctor service offering appointments in English and Arabic hopes to provide healthcare fit for modern Sweden, its founder has told The Local.
A region in central Sweden has turned to technological innovation in an attempt to battle lengthy waiting times to see doctors as it becomes the first area in the country to offer digital appointments with GPs.
Swedish doctors have proposed that patients must stop smoking cigarettes for four to eight weeks pre-surgery, in an attempt to quash the increased number of complications that smokers suffer after going under the knife.
A small Norwegian country hospital has almost only Swedish doctors on its staff. Most have come from the same clinic in Sweden, seeking more attractive employment terms in Norway.
Doctors in Stockholm are increasingly prescribing exercise in place of medication, according to a review by Stockholm’s county council health board, a trend which is likely to continue.
Some twenty physicians in northwestern Sweden failed for months to realize that a patient was suffering from cancer of the larynx for months until a few weeks before he died.
After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the “most serious drug problem” in the area.
The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) issued fewer medical licenses in 2009 to doctors with foreign medical degrees than in previous years, new figures show.
Sweden is attracting an increasing number of physicians from abroad. Almost every other new medical license is granted to someone who was educated abroad.
Elderly British patients were left nursing their injuries after botched operations by Swedish doctors brought in to cut waiting lists, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports.
Love is in the air at Swedish hospitals, at least according to a new set of statistics compiled by the magazine Du & Jobbet (‘You and Work’) and Statistics Sweden (SCB).
Sweden's medical negligence board, HSAN, is to investigate the case of a boy who had a six centimetre lollipop stick up his nose for eleven months. None of the seven doctors who examined him in that time managed to find it, reported Expressen.
Almost every third Swedish doctor feels burned out, and just as many have suicidal thoughts. Harassment and bullying are also common, according to a study of the work environment at Karolinska University Hospital.
