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International social security more topical than ever
31.5.2017
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 EU’s […]
Health and Social Services Reform and Act on Cross-Border Health Care
18.5.2017
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 Health […]
Comparison of medicine reimbursement systems: More new medicines in the Finnish market
11.5.2017
– 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 and […]
Statistics from the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL): Differences in waiting lists between healthcare districts
10.4.2017
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 and […]
Follow preparations for the reform of health and social services at the alueuudistus.fi website
27.2.2017
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 alueuudistus.fi (Health, social services and regional government reform), a site with a comprehensive collection of information and material about the reform. […]
Read our sign language site
9.2.2017
We have published the key content of the Choosehealthcare.fi website, both in Finnish and in Finnish-Swedish sign language. Sign language videos, for example, explain how you can select a health centre or hospital in Finland, how moving abroad will affect your rights to receive health care, or how you can seek treatment abroad. You can view the […]
The Contact Point for Cross-Border Healthcare serves customers online. The e-mail/telephone service ended on 31 December 2016.
30.12.2016
The services of the Contact Point for Cross-Border Healthcare changed at the beginning of 2017. The telephone service on 020 634 0400 ended on 31 December 2016. The telephone service was ended because questions dealing with the area of responsibility of the Contact Point had been few. In future, we will primarily serve customers online […]
How to notify about changing your health centre
15.12.2016
As a customer of public healthcare, you are entitled to choose the health centre whose services you wish to use. You can make your choice from anywhere in Finland up to once a year. At any one time, you may be a customer of only one health centre. Should you wish to switch to another […]
Sami-language Choosehealthcare.fi site opened
7.11.2016
The Choosehealthcare.fi website can now also be read in Sami at the address saame.hoitopaikanvalinta.fi. Up to now, the entire content of the website has been available in Finnish, Swedish and English, and now the choice of languages has been extended to Northern Sami. The language can easily be selected from the language menu visible on […]