Administration of Public Health and Medical Service Committee

Organisation

Health and medical care has been organised along different lines as of 1999, with a clear distinction between the party ordering or procuring health care services, and the producers of those services. The Public Health and Medical Services Committee has the overall responsibility for ordering health and medical care and community care for certain groups of disabled people. The six Health Care Boards are responsible for providing the inhabitants in the respective districts with the health care they require. The Committee in conjunction with the district Health Care Boards comprise one financial reporting unit.

A specific Production Board has been formed for the County Council's own production. The representatives' organisation/producer system that has been introduced means that the Public Health and Medical Services Committee, the Health Care Boards and the Production Board now bear joint responsibility for the patients.

An increasing proportion of healthcare services are being provided by county council-owned companies regarding hospital care and activities ‘hived off ’ from hospitals. Since the autumn of 1999, a large private owned hospital, St.Görans Sjukhus AB, has also been operational.

The Public Health and Medical Services Committee (HSN)

The Public Health and Medical Services Committee consists of 15 members and 15 alternates. The chairman is Health Care Commissioner Stig Nyman (Christian Democrat - kd). The Committee comprises the following sub-committees: The General Sub-committee, the Sub-committee for Primary Health Care, the Health and Psychiatric Care Sub-committee and the Sub-committee for Acute care.

The executive body of the HSN is the professional salaried employees' organisation. The Director of Health Care Services is the chief executive officer and forms, along with the six local directors of health care services, the executive body for health and medical care services. The main task of the executive is to collate information concerning the public requirement concerning health care within the various categories of illness in both the short and the long term, to procure/order the care required and to follow up the running of activities.