Many Finns move to another EU country for work, studies or retirement and use the health care services of the new country of residence. Tourists may also need health care services suddenly. An increasing number of foreigners also become clients of the Finnish health care services. Therefore, cross-border healthcare is already very common. The […]

The Government proposal regarding the amendments to the Act on Cross-Border Health Care will proceed to processing by Parliament in late May. The Government proposal is based on the updates necessitated by the Act on Organising Health and Social Services, the Act on Freedom of Choice and the Act on Provision of Social and […]

– The comparison of Finland and New Zealand is interesting because the countries have similar health care systems, whose costs per resident are close to each other. However, the medicine reimbursement systems and medicine markets are very different, says Kela’s researcher Katri Aaltonen, MSc (Pharm.). To what extent are medicine reimbursements sufficient in Finland […]

The Contact Point for Cross-Border Healthcare will be presenting the Choosehealthcare.fi online service at Finland’s largest educational event for social and healthcare professionals, TERVE-SOS, which will take place at the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre in Helsinki on 4-5 May 2017. Experts from Kela specialising in issues related to the planned social welfare and […]

The Contact Point for Cross-Border Healthcare and the Choosehealthcare.fi online service will again this year be exhibiting at TERVE-SOS, Finland’s largest educational event for social and healthcare professionals, which will be held in the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre in Helsinki during the first week of May. We will not settle for the ordinary, […]

The first Advisory Board on Cross-Border Healthcare has been appointed. It will serve a three-year term from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2020. The Advisory Board is chaired by Pävi Sillanaukee, and the deputy chair is Kirsi Varhila, both of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The Advisory Board is charged with […]

At the end of December 2016, 115,823 patients were waiting for access to treatment at the hospitals of healthcare districts, and almost 2,000 of them had been waiting for non-urgent treatment for more than six months, says a THL statistics report. The fastest access to non-urgent special medical treatment was available in Southwest Finland […]

Topical matters and the key content of the website take up most of the new homepage of the Choosehealthcare.fi site, which was launched in March. The aim of the revamped homepage is to help readers to find the most popular and topical information from the diverse content of the website. Topical content now easier […]

In the reform of health and social services currently under preparation, the whole of public social and health care will be reformed. You can follow the progress of the preparations for the reform at , a site with a comprehensive collection of information and material about the reform. The Ministry of Social Affairs and […]

The key content of the Choosehealthcare.fi online service has been published in sign language at . The Choosehealthcare.fi website, which serves users of health services and healthcare professionals, contains information about the possibilities and rights of patients to use health services in Finland and abroad. The website also contains information about customer payments, treatment […]