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Published: November 1st 2016
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We started the morning by making our way to find the bus to take us directly to the 'Sahlgrenska University Hospital', surprisingly we made it on time, however it was very busy which meant a few people had to stand. We have all mastered being able to keep our balance on the buses now, especially Helen, considering she nearly fell onto a ladies lap on the first time using this type of transport.
We arrived at the Hospital approximately 10 minutes later, we where all shocked at how big the hospital actually is! Katie and Ce'nedra where more impressed with the cafe within the hospital and stopped on the way past for a traditional cheese and ham toastie. During the session which Carina lead we all learnt some important facts from the session, such as;
• One of the largest hospitals in Europe
• 16,000 employees - nearly as many employees as DCC as a whole
• The group found it interesting that patients have to pay to see the doctor, nurse and to actually stay in the hospital per night, it works out at around 200 SEK per night (£20) as well as paying for the prescription.
• The
patients can be involved in the projects they can have the choice of measures and in continuous improvement of care process. They can also be involved in reporting outcomes.
• There are also 3 Tiers which the workers bide by to discuss disease;
• Tier 1 - Heath status achieved or retained.
• - Short term perspective
• Tier 2- Process of recovery
• Tier 3- Sustainability of health
• - Long term perspective
• Another interesting fact is that when a women goes into hospital to give birth, the bill is sent to the birth givers partner. However, I suppose that is fair seen as though the women goes through a ruptured sphincter.
The group definitely woke up when the ruptured sphincter was mentioned, Helen's eyes surprisingly lit up when she heard this particular word and looked to the group with a smirk on her face. You never normally discuss this topic when presenting to a group of young females and of course Peter. After the presentation had finished, the group made their way to find the bus to take us back to the usual drop off near the hostel- however, we arrived there 30 minutes later as we got lost and took
a detour to a rather weird town, reminding Paige and Helen off Peterlee. As time went by, it was time to go back to the office and learn about Data Analysis with Karin. Some important facts which the group learnt from the presentation where;
• It is split into 2 units; The first being Health care analysis and the second being Social and Community.
• They support businesses who come up with new ideas or any suggestions
• In Glasgow the life expectancy for a women is 77 and for men it is 71, in comparison to Sweden; women 83 and men 73. This shows that Sweden could possibly have a better health care than Glasgow.
• 1/5 of the 1.65 million inhabitants are under the age of 18. This is due to the fact that students travel to Gothenburg for education.
• Part of the data and analysis role is to produce assumptions such as; life expectancy, childbirth and death.
The workers are predicting that on average there will be 18000 more people each year coming into the world. All of the group found this really interesting. One born every minute will be very busy. Karin also showed the group
an attachment which estimated your life expectancy, you entered the data such as; your date of birth, county you where born in and your gender and in the end result it told you the approximate day you would die. I suppose we could all add this date to our diaries at work so we do not forget! Better start making our bucket lists.
If anyone wants to give this a go the website is: www.population.io
On our way back Helen decided to do her impression of the pigeon lady from home alone and was rather excited to feed the bread to all the birds - see photo attached.
We are all now going for a nice greasy burger!, Pictures will be posted later.
Goodnight, hope every one is well.
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