Sweden's Left Party has presented five healthcare priorities. They include more state funding from 2027, higher pay in female-dominated care occupations, shorter working hours, opposition to corporatisation and a halt to further privatisation. The information comes from the party's own publication and describes political proposals, not adopted measures.
What happened?
Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar presented the priorities outside Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. According to the party's text, it wants to add five billion kronor nationally from 2027 so regions can employ staff and shorten queues. A proposed “women's pay lift” amounts to 30 billion kronor over ten years and targets female-dominated occupations, with assistant nurses and midwives cited as examples. The Left Party also wants shorter working hours with unchanged pay for care staff, opposes moving more healthcare into corporate structures and wants to halt further private operation.
Location
Sverige, Malmö, Skåne
Impact and significance
Healthcare funding, staffing and organisation are central political dividing lines. The proposals show the direction the Left Party wants to pursue in future national and regional budgets. The stated sums are substantial, but the party's publication does not contain a complete financing plan or say what parliamentary support the proposals have. Claims about effects on waiting lists, recruitment and sickness absence are the party's arguments, not outcomes that have already been achieved.
Background
In its publication, the party describes long waiting times and pressured working conditions as the main healthcare problems and points to Region Skåne as an example. The Left Party opposes both further corporatisation and a complete state takeover of healthcare. Its stated line is instead for central government to take greater responsibility for equal funding while public healthcare is strengthened. This distinction matters: the proposals do not call for transferring all regional responsibility for healthcare to the state.
Latest update
The latest material is a presentation of party policy. The source does not say when each proposal would be put to parliament or the regions, apart from stating that the additional five billion kronor would begin in 2027. WUA therefore does not describe the proposals as adopted or budgeted and links to the party's original wording.
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Reviewed: 2026-08-15. Independent editorial content. WUA Sverige is not affiliated with any political party.