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Health services for persons arriving in Finland from Ukraine: health services transferred from reception centres to wellbeing services counties according to municipality of residence
2.5.2023Read the article in Ukrainian — Read the article in Russian In Finland, the right to use health care services is usually based on your municipality of residence. If you have lived in Finland for over a year and have applied for a municipality of residence from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency, being […]
Kanta.fi: You can now purchase medicines in Spain using a Finnish electronic prescription
21.3.2023With a Finnish electronic prescription, you can now buy medicines from almost all pharmacies in Spain (sanidad.gob.es, in Spanish). Correspondingly, it is now also possible to buy medicines in Finland using a Spanish electronic prescription. In addition to Spain, Finnish prescriptions are accepted in Estonia, Portugal, Croatia, and Poland. Checklist for purchasing prescription medicines abroad […]
Healthcare system in Finland
Public health care In Finland, the wellbeing services counties, the City of Helsinki and HUS Group are responsible for the provision of healthcare. Each wellbeing services county also belongs to one of the five collaborative areas, each of which has one university hospital. The wellbeing services counties belonging to the same collaborative area conclude a […]
What kind of service needs do people seeking treatment abroad have?
8.10.2024Our article series explains how the Contact Point for Cross-Border Healthcare collects information about people seeking treatment abroad and how the results influence the development of our services. You can read the first part of the series in the What's new section. The second part of the article series gives you an insight into the information we received from benefits officers and customer service staff at Kela’s Centre for International Affairs about people seeking treatment abroad and their service needs.
Proving your right to treatment in Finland
There are several different certificates and their purposes vary. Present the certificate of entitlement to medical care and your identity card to the treatment provider upon arrival to treatment. The certificate must be valid at the time when the treatment is given. If you do not have a certificate of entitlement to treatment or one […]
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Foreign patients’ treatment in Finland
Every customer is always entitled to receive the emergency treatment they need in Finnish public health care, regardless of their country of origin and reason for staying in Finland. If the customer coming from abroad has a municipality of residence in Finland, they are entitled to public health care services and non-emergency treatment in the […]
10 years of EU-healthcare.fi – a website built with our customers
16.10.2025EU-healthcare.fi will turn ten years old in October 2025. Over the last decade, the site has evolved and developed–always with the customer in mind. To mark the anniversary, let’s take a look at the history and development of the site.
Lithuania
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Lithuania. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]
Italy
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Italy. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]