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Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Slovakia. 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 […]

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 […]

If you are calling from abroad, dial the country code +358 in front of the telephone number and omit the first zero. Contact point for cross-border health care The contact point distributes information about using health care services in Finland and abroad, the right to medical care in different situations, reimbursement of costs and the […]

Find out before you leave what medical records you need to take with you If you are seeking treatment abroad, find out from the treatment provider what medical records are required. Necessary records usually consists of a referral or a medical certificate, a medical report and laboratory and imaging results. Medical records in Finnish are […]

This section provides information about special treatment situations abroad, including pregnancy and childbirth, treatment of chronic diseases, rehabilitation, assistive devices, and reference networks for rare diseases.

What sort of treatment can I seek? If you are covered by health insurance in another EU country, you can freely seek treatment in Finland’s public or private health care. Seeking treatment means that you arrive in Finland for the purpose of using health care services. You can seek services of both primary health care […]

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 […]

The national COVID-19 vaccination certificate will automatically be replaced by the EU Digital COVID Certificate in the My Kanta Pages. A national COVID-19 vaccination certificate stored on a mobile phone or printed out from the My Kanta Pages, for example, should also be replaced by the EU Digital COVID Certificate, which is more widely recognised […]

With 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 […]

Our 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.