An interactive dashboard with data on waiting for selected surgical procedures has now been published.

Projects for Digital Iceland received four nominations for the Icelandic Web Prize for 2021, which will be awarded today by the Icelandic Web Industry Association (SVEF).

A new digital application for parental leave has been in the making for a couple of years in cooperation with the Directorate of Labour. The new parents apply for parental leave or maternity/paternity grants.

The weekly number of diagnoses of confirmed influenza has not been higher since the turn of the year. The majority of diagnoses now are of influenza B strain, as has been the case in recent weeks.

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New HSU website

The Icelandic Medicines Agency has issued a press release on the preliminary results of the Danish Medicines Agency´s investigation on bacterial contamination in the antibiotic Dicillin (marketed as Staklox in Iceland).

Icelandic Health insurance has mostly remedied weaknesses identified by the National Audit Office in its 2018 audit of the institution.

Confirmed cases of Influenza were fewer in week 12 compared to week 11, whereas the number of clinical diagnoses of Influenza-like illness were similar between weeks.

On 22 May 2022, a monkeypox had been confirmed in 59 individuals in nine countries in Europe (Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and in addition 10 were suspected of being infected.