https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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). https://www.thelocal.se/20200110/doctors-fees-to-get-more-expensive-in-three-swedish-regions Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:03:51 +0100 doctors-fees-to-get-more-expensive-in-three-swedish-regions 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20171230/free-online-medical-consultation-available-to-swedes-at-new-clinic Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:48:13 +0100 free-online-medical-consultation-available-to-swedes-at-new-clinic Stockholm-based English teacher David Ashby explains why he loves visits to the doctor in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20170802/an-english-doctor-would-probably-have-tried-to-woo-me-a-little-before-getting-my-trousers-off Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:59:00 +0200 an-english-doctor-would-probably-have-tried-to-woo-me-a-little-before-getting-my-trousers-off 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20170504/why-sweden-now-has-english-and-arabic-speaking-digital-doctors Thu, 04 May 2017 17:37:48 +0200 why-sweden-now-has-english-and-arabic-speaking-digital-doctors Sweden has more doctors now than in 2009, according to a new report. But the country needs even more, experts say. https://www.thelocal.se/20170301/sweden-we-need-international-doctors-health-nurses Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:14:19 +0100 sweden-we-need-international-doctors-health-nurses 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20161108/sweden-trials-digital-appointments-with-doctors Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:15:52 +0100 sweden-trials-digital-appointments-with-doctors 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20130204/45984 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:27:00 +0100 45984 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20121030/44120 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:40:00 +0100 44120 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20120605/41266 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:28:00 +0200 41266 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20120323/39838 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:00:00 +0100 39838 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20120118/38570 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:12:00 +0100 38570 Text message reminders for appointments with doctors or dentists may soon be a thing of the past in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20110408/33086 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:34:00 +0200 33086 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20100706/27634 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:52:00 +0200 27634 Sweden is attracting an increasing number of physicians from abroad. Almost every other new medical license is granted to someone who was educated abroad. https://www.thelocal.se/20090830/21768 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:08:00 +0200 21768 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20090524/19630 Sun, 24 May 2009 18:01:00 +0200 19630 Doctors in Sweden from other European Union countries don’t speak Swedish well enough, according to patients and other healthcare personnel. https://www.thelocal.se/20081117/15730 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:16:00 +0100 15730 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). https://www.thelocal.se/20080919/14434 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:27:00 +0200 14434 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20070727/8015 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:54:00 +0200 8015 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20060930/5070 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:18:00 +0200 5070