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  • National services in the specialist health care services

    02/07/2024 Article Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The term national services in the specialist health care services is a common term for national / bi-regional treatment services and national competence services.

  • Reduced Recidivism to Crime

    24/01/2018 Plans/strategy Ministry of Justice and Public Security, Ministry of Education and Research, Ministry of Health and Care Services, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development

    National strategy for coordinated reintegration after served sentences 2017-2021

  • Women’s Health Commission submits report

    16/03/2023 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The Minister of Health and Care Services, Ingvild Kjerkol, received the Norwegian Official Report (NOU), titled “The Big Difference: On Women’s Health in Norway and Why Sex and Gender Matter” from the Women’s Health Comission.

  • The Healthcare Personnel Commission delivers its report

    02/02/2023 Press release Ministry of Health and Care Services

    On Thursday 2 February, the Minister of Health and Care Services, Ingvild Kjerkol, delivered the Healthcare Personnel Commission’s report titled Time to Act: Personnel in a sustainable health and care service.

  • Norway will take the lead in European public health cooperation

    17/02/2023 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The EU has invested 75 million euros into public health, and has asked Norway to lead this project.

  • – Ambulatory surgery will have an increasingly more important role in the future

    13/05/2024 Speech/statement Ministry of Health and Care Services

    Dear president, Dear chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to attend the 15th International Congress on Ambulatory Surgery and share some opening remarks with you. First, I would like to thank all the organizers for kindly

    By Minister of Health and Care Services Jan Christian Vestre 15th International Congress on Ambulatory Surgery

  • The Women’s Health Strategy

    03/10/2024 Plans/strategy Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The Norwegian Women’s Health Strategy is based on the vision that all inhabitants, regardless of gender, should have equal opportunities to good health and quality of life.

  • German-Norwegian Health Partnership

    06/02/2025 Plans/strategy Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The German Federal Ministry of Health and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services (hereinafter «The Sides») wish to enter a strategic partnership to enhance their close collaboration in the field of health, marked by a shared belief in

  • National Wellbeing Strategy

    16/12/2025 Plans/strategy Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The National Wellbeing Strategy is anchored in the white paper on public health, Meld. St. 15 (2022-2023). The aim of the strategy is to provide direction for developing policies that to a greater extent take into consideration what is important, 

  • The National Budget 2023: Historic investment in the Regular General Practitioner Scheme

    07/10/2022 Press release Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The government is proposing a NOK 690 million boost to the Regular General Practitioner Scheme in 2023, resulting in a total annual budget of NOK 920 million. In what is an otherwise tight budget, the government has still been able to accommodate an

  • Deferral of decision regarding a second dose for 12 to 15-year-olds

    25/10/2021 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    One dose of the COVID-19 vaccine has been offered to children aged 12 to 15 since the beginning of September. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has considered whether they should also be offered a second dose, but has recommended waiting for

  • Medical Evacuation from Gaza: Six Patients to Norway

    09/12/2024 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Care Services, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, Office of the Prime Minister

    Six patients from Gaza were evacuated from Egypt to Norway on 9 December, in order to receive medical treatment in Norway. The patients are children aged 1-16, travelling with family members. These are the first patients from Gaza to arrive in

  • Revised National Budget: Additional round-the-clock care places

    16/05/2023 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    To ensure good and safe health and care services for the elderly, the Government proposes to increase the grant limit for round-the-clock care facilities by NOK 2 billion. The Government also proposes to expand the Tørn programme under the Norwegian

  • Revised National Budget: Hospitals will receive larger budgets

    16/05/2023 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The Norwegian Government proposes a permanent budget increase for hospitals, in addition to extraordinary price and wage adjustments in the hospital budgets. This amounts to a total of NOK 4.7 billion.

  • Norway facilitates rehabilitation of injured children and mental health care efforts in Ukraine

    24/04/2025 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Care Services

    Norwegian health workers are taking part in the effort to strengthen the health system in Ukraine. ‘The experience and knowledge provided by our health professionals will enable Ukrainian health workers to offer better health care to the Ukrainian

  • Norway strengthens global pandemic preparedness efforts

    12/09/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    After more than two years of coping with a pandemic, Norway is joining a new initiative to strengthen global pandemic preparedness. The aim is to mitigate the risk and consequences of a new pandemic. ‘The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the

  • First wounded soldiers from Ukraine arrive

    13/06/2022 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services, Ministry of Justice and Public Security

    The first wounded soldiers from Ukraine who are due to receive treatment in Norwegian hospitals have arrived in Norway.

  • NOU 2022: 5 - The Norwegian Government's Management of the Coronavirus Pandemic – Part 2

    Summary in English

    26/04/2022 Norwegian Official Report (NOU) Office of the Prime Minister

  • The National Budget 2023: Boost for the mental health and substance abuse fields

    07/10/2022 Press release Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The government is prioritising health and addiction services, and is to commit NOK 300 million to strengthening the area.

  • Minister Vestre visited Kyiv and signed a health partnership agreement with Ukraine

    04/07/2025 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    Norway and Ukraine have recently signed an agreement on a health partnership. The agreement was signed in Kyiv on Tuesday, July 1.

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