Emergency medical care
The purpose of the audit is to assess whether organisation of healthcare guarantees that people get help at the right time via scheduled treatment.
It is no less important that the systematic and timely treatment of the patient continues after they have received emergency care.
The audit seeks answers to these main questions:
1. Does the organisation of healthcare (incl. funding) guarantee that patients get treatment at the right time and they do not develop a need for emergency care due to long waiting lists and/or the failure to recognise health disorders?
2. Are the persons who need emergency care the only ones who end up in an emergency medicine department?
3. Do the persons who received health services at an emergency medicine department receive the timely aftercare they need?
85 million euros was spent on financing emergency medicine in 2015.
The number of the patients who arrived at emergency reception has increased by 6.2% from 2010-2015 and amounts to 481,403 patients per year.
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Area of government
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Ministry of social affairs
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Institution to be audited
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Auditees
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Audit Department
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Audit Department
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Director of Audit
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Ines Metsalu-Nurminen
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Audit Team
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Mart Vain, Pille Kuusepalu, Eva-Maria Asari, Thea Teinemaa
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Contacts
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Audit Number
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70129
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Auditi number Riigikontrolli asjaajamissüsteemis 70129
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Planned Start
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1st half of 2017
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Actual Start
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1st half of 2017
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Planned End
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1st half of 2018
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Actual End
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2nd half of 2018
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Status
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Published
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Audit Files
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Related Audits
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Created on
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1/3/2017
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Last modified on
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10/31/2018
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Last reviewed on
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10/31/2018
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