Exploring the Causes and Policy Explanations for the Imbalance between Supply and Demand of Professional Healthcare Personnel in Grassroots Elderly Care Institutions in Qingdao

Abstract

Current pension agency for with the deepening of aging degree and “combining medical and nursing care” policy response has many problems, widespread phenomenon is professional staff pension agency imbalance between supply and demand. In this study, the causes of this problem and its policy explanation are analyzed by using the in-depth interview method of qualitative research. Through the interviews with nurses, medical staff and management personnel in the local pension institutions in Qingdao, it is found that the causes of the imbalance between the supply and demand of professional medical staff mainly include insufficient number of medical staff, inconsistency between workload and income, tension between doctors and patients, and operation difficulties of pension institutions. The key to solving the problem is to promote cooperation between enterprises and schools, set up unified posts, improve the recruitment system, increase government subsidies and support, and formulate and implement targeted policies and measures to form a reasonable and efficient medical and nursing combination system.