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Taiwan ranks No. 218 in World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek |
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Emergency room and ICU serious congestion |
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| United Daily (聯合報), 2025-3-2 | The vice-president of National Taiwan University Hospital said that it is "really difficult" to recruit emergency resident-Doctors recently. Mesozoic doctors rely on their enthusiasm to survive. In the past, each emergency attending physician cared for an average of 20 to 30 patients, but now to take care of more than 30~40 patients. Not only the departments of emergency but pediatrics are facing difficulties. |
| United Daily (聯合報), 2025-2-24 |
It's been a long time that
Taiwan lacks of
nursing manpower. In the past ten
years, the national nursing manpower has had an average annual net
increase of 5,000 people, but in recent years, only
2,500 people. therefore, we have to rely on senior nurses. Nursing staff's high turnover rate
is caused by salary remuneration, work pressure,
workplace environment, insufficient manpower allocation, and that labor
effort is not proportional to the income.
The measures proposed by the
government, such as night shift allowances and adjustments to the
nurse-to-patient ratio, are mostly mere formalities. Old salary structure
certainly lead to a
continued collapse in medical capacity and a significant
reduction in the quality of medical care.
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| Yahoo Taiwan, 2025-2-26 | By the end of 2024, the number of registered nurses in Taiwan is more than 193,000. The total turnover rate of hospital nursing staff is nearly 13%, and the total vacancy rate is about 6%. The largest proportion of nurses practice is in clinics, 2nd is long-term care institutions. The reason resulting in a shortage of manpower in many hospital emergency rooms is that (1) labor-intensive medical environment (2) low-paid. tw.news.yahoo.com/護理人力短缺-病床關閉加劇急診壅塞-恐-全盤皆輸-032840460.html |
| United Daily, 2025-2-27 | NTU professor 陳秀熙 says: Taiwan's budget for medical resource is insufficient, and the design of the health insurance system does not take into account the huge medical needs of the post-war baby boomers. The number of cancer and chronic diseases has been more than double or triple, and the demand for hospitalization is a all-time high |
| China Times (中時), 2025-2-24 | The root cause of emergency room congestion lies in the structural problems of the medical system and the government's neglect and inaction to medical needs. |
| SET TV News (三立新聞), 2025-2-25 | Emergency room congestion! However, Taiwan's ICU bed-to-population ratio is "global No.1" ─ Taiwan 31, Germany 29.2, Argentina 25.8, the United States 25.8, Austria 21.8; The issue is that the hospital bed scheduling mechanism (調床機制) exists in name only, and the resignation of nurses is in serious situation ─ higher salary could improve the situation. video: 急診壅塞! 前線人員壓力大 重症患者等嘸病床! |
| TTV news (台視新聞), 2025-2-25 |
video:
The medical government's proposals to solve the issue were bashing "difficult to implement! " by the medical circle, because the core problem is insufficient medical manpower and no beds available. Providing with financial incentives is one of right ways. |
| UDN (聯合報), 2025-2-25 |
The
fundamental reasons for the shortage of hospital beds are insufficient nurse manpower and
low health insurance points (健保點數); "hierarchical
medical care system "
(「分級醫療」) has never been implemented
- which results in overcrowded emergency rooms . Besides, the government has always
been slow to respond the call for adjustment of health insurance
benefits for acute and severe cases (健保給付調整急重症給付). More than 70% of large hospital emergency-room patients are not urgent cases and should be transfered to regional level hospitals. However, many people prefer medical centers and famous Doctors. It is necessary for the government to formulate compulsory measures. |
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Income of Taiwan's physicians and nursing staff |
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| United Daily (聯合報), 2025-3-5 | NTUH union (台大醫院企業工會秘書長) says the resident Doctors at National Taiwan University Hospital and other public hospitals are paid low, with a fixed salary of only about NT$ 50,000, it may up to only NT$ 60,000 to 80,000 after adding various bonuses. Analyzing the fixed salary and working hours of resident Doctors at NTUH, the converted hourly salary is only more than NT$ 200 (about USD 7); NTUH (台大醫院醫務秘書) says that the fixed salary of a resident Doctor, before deducting labor and health insurance, is about NT$ 70,000. If MDs on duty normally ( in average eight shifts per month), the monthly income ( including bonuses and points of working-years accumulated ) will not be NT$ 80,000 or more.udn.com/news/story/124393/8586216?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub124393_pulldownmenu_v2 |
| United Daily (聯合報), 2025-3-5 | According to data from the Ministry of Labor, the average monthly regular salary of nursing staff is about NT$ 47,716, which is the average regular salary(經常性月薪平均), but it is not the basic salary(本薪). Fixed allowances and bonuses paid on a monthly basis, as well as hazard pay, transportation expenses, meal expenses, utility bills, attendance bonuses vary from hospital to hospital.(按月給付的固定津貼、獎金，以及危險津貼、交通費、膳食費、水電費、全勤獎金等。各醫院不盡相同)udn.com/news/story/124393/8587820?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 |
n Taiwan ranks No.99 in best hospital list (2025) by Newsweek, Statista
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World's Best
Smart Hospitals 2025 |
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| world rank | hospital | country |
| 10 | Sheba Medical center | Israel |
| 18 | Samsung Medical Center | S. Korea |
| 22 | Singapore General Hospital | Singapore |
| 23 | The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital | Japan |
| 30 | Tan Tock Seng Hospital | Singapore |
| 39 | Fortis Memorial Research Institute | India |
| 45 | Gleneagles Hospital | Singapore |
| 57 | Kyoto Univ. Hospital | Japan |
| 60 | Seoul National Univ. Hospital | S. Korea |
| 65 | Asan Medical center | S. Korea |
| 77 | National Univ. Hospital | Singapore |
| 85 | Keio University Hospital | Japan |
| 94 | Wooridul Spine Hospital | S. Korea |
| 96 | Seoul National University - Bundang Hospital | S. Korea |
| 98 | Ajou University Hospital | S. Korea |
| 99 | Taichung Veterans General Hospital | Taiwan |
| ps: survey-studies not including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, etc | ||
n comparison among main countries in Asia
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World's Best
Smart Hospitals 2025 |
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Asia's rank |
country |
number of top 100 hospitals |
| 1 | S. Korea | 6 (No. 18, 60, 65, 94, 96,98) |
| 2 | Singapore | 4 (No.22, 30, 45, 77) |
| 3 | Japan | 3 (No. 23, 57, 85) |
| 4 | Israel | 1 (No.10) |
| 5 | India | 1 (No. 39) |
| 6 | Taiwan | 1 (No.99) |
n Taiwan's hospitals enter top 350
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World's Best Smart Hospitals 2025 by Newsweek |
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| 臺中榮總 | Taichung Veterans General Hospital |
| 中國醫大醫院 | China Medical Univ. Hospital |
| 高雄長庚 | Kaohsiung Chang Gung Mem. Hospital |
| 高雄榮總 | Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital |
| 林口長庚 | Linkou Chang Gung Mem. Hospital |
| 成大醫院 | National Cheng Kung Univ. Hospital |
| 台大醫院 | National Taiwan Univ. Hospital |
| 臺北榮總 | Taipei Veterans General Hospital |
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