The Örebro County Council runs 29 primary health care centres in 16 different places. These centres vary considerably in size and have a population basis of anything from about 3,000 to 19,000 people.
None is exactly like another, since for quite a long time each centre has chosen its own individual approach to the services it provides. Differences in geographical location, the local population structure and proximity to hospitals mean that working methods and routines may vary.
The primary care services run by the Örebro County Council are part of a larger administrative unit - Primärvård, psykiatri och habilitering (Primary care, Psychiatry and Habilitation, or PPH). Each operational area is headed by its own area manager, who makes independent decisions.
The common denominator of the health care centres in the County of Örebro is that they are extensively equipped, are computerised and offer a full range of services, including a district medical centre, a district nurse’s surgery, laboratory facilities, a maternity clinic, a youth counselling centre, child health care services and a physiotherapy department.
Cooperation
The County has taken pains to ensure seamless cooperation between the primary care services, the hospitals and the local authorities. No patient undergoing care should have to come up against any administrative or professional boundaries. To help us, we have developed a set of care guidelines and health care programmes. In one particular project - Hilma - we’re concentrating on developing cooperation with our oldest and most frail patients.
In Örebro, the county council is responsible for organising the services of doctors and physiotherapists, while the services of nurses and occupational therapists are organised by the municipal authorities.
The local authorities, hospitals and primary care services have also agreed on a joint programme for the development of palliative care, information transfer, health care planning and rehabilitation services for the elderly.
Active recruitment policy
The primary health care services offered by the Örebro County Council make Örebro an attractive county to work in, and there are currently excellent opportunities of finding employment at a local health care centre in a place of your own choosing.
We have put together an organisation that actively seeks to recruit doctors to the county health care services. Our recruitment officer, Christian Törnqvist, will be available to help if you feel you’d like to start working here. If you find a post that suits you, we’ll be happy to put you in touch with the right people to help you find accommodation, work for the rest of the family and daycare services for the children.
The General Medical Research Centre (AFC) was established in the autumn of 2002 and is part of the primary health care administration. At the AFC, we focus primarily on evidence-based, close-to-the-patient clinical research, aiming to develop methods of optimising diagnostics and treatment in the primary health care services. Among our research fields are diabetes, lumbar pain, infection of the respiratory passages, obesity, exercise, anitidotal smoking therapy and medication of the elderly.
The AFC is affiliated with the University of Örebro and is headed by a visiting professor in general medicine, Peter Engfeldt, who also acts as supervisor of the research projects run by the Centre.
Research
The primary care services are very favourably inclined towards research. Since we can often start using the results directly in our day-to-day work, thereby improving the quality of the services we can offer, we hope that more people will be interested in carrying out research in the field of general medicine. And as our colleague to be, you are most welcome to discuss your ideas with us.
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