By 2050, approximately 200,000 additional people will be needed in care or support. Health Austria has now come to this conclusion. If you take into account the number of completed courses, there is a shortage of about 2,000 to 3,000 people per year.
The requirements take pensions and demographic developments into account. However, possible migration or terminations have not been taken into account because there is insufficient data available for this. Health Austria’s research includes staff in hospitals, including rehabilitation centers, and staff in inpatient care, day care and mobile long-term care. This shows that another 196,500 people will be needed in healthcare by 2050. If you focus only on nursing staff in the narrower sense (e.g. qualified health and nursing staff), between 5,000 and 5,900 more will be needed annually until 2030 to meet demand.
5,100 are trained annually
In contrast, an average of 5,100 people are currently trained annually. However, one should not forget that only about 80 percent would actually enter the profession, says Brigitte Juraszovich, deputy head of the healthcare department of Health Austria (GÖG).
To attract and retain more staff, the study authors sometimes recommend subsidies for training, recruitment of international nursing staff, more administrative staff and generally better working conditions. “This includes more family-friendly working hours, a daily workload that is easier to manage and stable schedules. The recognition of nursing as hard work is also an important measure to appreciate the professionals,” said Reinhard Waldhör, chairman of the health union GÖD, in a press release.
More time for relationship work
Volkshilfe also called on Wednesday for easier access to the forced labor pension. She also points out that more time is needed for relationship work in care and support and more time for team consultation. This is not even included in the new figures.
Source: Krone
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