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Responsible party: Directorate of Health
Processor: Directorate of Health
Purpose: To maintain a register of licenses to practice for healthcare practitioners, license numbers, and other specific details of those who have been granted rights to work as healthcare professionals in Iceland, by the Ministry of Health and Social Security, later by the Ministry of Health and now the Directorate of Health.
Content: Data on all healthcare professionals who have been granted a license to work in the healthcare sector in Iceland. Each healthcare practitioner is allocated a unique identification number, which remains unchanged in the register, even if the person in question no longer works as a healthcare practitioner. A list of the health professions for which the Directorate of Health maintains a list can be seen on the website of the Directorate. The license list is updated in real time.
Period: A register of all healthcare professionals currently licensed to practice and have received a license since the issuing of licenses began at the Ministry of Health and Social Security, later the Ministry of Health, and the Directorate of Health.
Source of data: Data from the Ministry of Health and Social Security, later the Ministry of Health, which granted licenses to practice to 31 March 2008. As of 1 April 2008, the issuing of licenses to healthcare professionals has been carried out by the Directorate of Health.
Items to be recorded: The unique number of a healthcare practitioner, name, ID number, gender, profession, specialist license, speciality if applicable, the validity date, country of issue of the license, and country of examination.
Comparable or related data sets: Register of Operating Parties in Health Service.
Processing and publication: The Register of Licensed Healthcare Practitioners is accessible on the website of the Directorate of Health. The license list is updated daily. Statistics on healthcare professionals are also available on the website of the Directorate of Health.
