{"id":20083,"date":"2025-01-20T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/?p=20083"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:11:46","slug":"time-wasters-at-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/time-wasters-at-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Time-wasters at hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reducing waiting times at Norwegian hospitals is one of the Minister of Health&#8217;s highest priorities, as emphasized by Jan Christian Vestre in the Health Speech 2025. Now, Oslo Economics will assist the Ministry of Health and Care Services in eliminating time-wasters in Norwegian hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Health and Care Services has established a working group that has identified time-wasters in hospitals. Oslo Economics will calculate how much time can be freed up in the service and contribute to reducing waiting times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more &#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/no\/aktuelt\/helsetalen-2025\/id3083819\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/no\/aktuelt\/helsetalen-2025\/id3083819\/\">Health Speech 2025<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/no\/tema\/helse-og-omsorg\/sykehus\/innsikt\/ventetidsloftet\/id3044263\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/no\/tema\/helse-og-omsorg\/sykehus\/innsikt\/ventetidsloftet\/id3044263\/\">Ventetidsl\u00f8ftet<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"774\" src=\"http:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tidstyv3-1-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tidstyv3-1-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tidstyv3-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tidstyv3-1-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tidstyv3-1-1536x1161.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tidstyv3-1-2048x1548.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing waiting times at Norwegian hospitals is one of the Minister of Health&#8217;s highest priorities, as emphasized by Jan Christian Vestre in the Health Speech 2025. Now, Oslo Economics will assist the Ministry of Health and Care Services in eliminating time-wasters in Norwegian hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-life-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20087,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions\/20087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osloeconomics.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}