Four billion to psychiatry - but the acute clinic will remain closed during the night
The psychiatric clinic for deaf adults will be closed at the same time. There is a clinic for deaf psychiatric patients in Skåne, but it is now going to be closed down.
One of the reasons is that it consisted of only one person, since the psychologist who worked there for many years retired in 2022. Since then it has been impossible to recruit anyone new. So the clinic is being closed, and deaf patients who need psychiatric help are instead being referred to general psychiatry or to primary care with the support of a sign language interpreter.
Another unit that has not been able to recruit staff either is the psychiatric acute clinic in Kristianstad. As Kb/NSk reported earlier, it will continue to be open only during the day until 17th March, and will be closed in the evenings and during the night. At other times patients are referred to Malmö, Lund or Blekinge.
_ It is unusually difficult to recruit staff to north-east Skåne. It is the same for all categories. From what we are given to understand, a large number of carers have been recruited to the prison service and the new legal centre that is being built up in Kristianstad, says Per Einarsson (KD), chairman of the psychiatric, rehabilitering and technical aids committee, and goes on:
_ But now the ambulance for psychiatric cases goes at the proper times, in the evenings and at weekends. Psychiatry can also support CSK's emergency unit if acute psychiatric cases turn up there.
During the most recent meeting of the committee the internal budget of almost 4 billion crowns was clubbed through. The extra money for the year amounts to 164.4 million, or 4.4 per cent.