Continued delays in processing cases at the Directorate of Health

Last Friday, a job fair was held at the University of Akureyri, where 30 companies and institutions introduced their activities to young people.

Christmas Greetings from HSN staff.

A new issue of Talnabrunnur, a newsletter on Health Information has been published.

All processes concerning driving students, driving instructors and driving schools for applications for driving studies have now been digitised and paper applications have now largely ceased. This simplifies and makes the processes more efficient, reduces the waiting time at the District Commissioners offices and reduces the number of trips that applicants often have to travel a long distance to the District Commissioners office on these occasions.

The Directorate of Fisheries has compiled information on vessels and sent them to the functional mailbox of parties that have vessels that have not yet complied with fishing obligations, i.e. to fish 50% of the allocated catch limit and the catch limit that was transferred from the previous year.

The results of a survey of the services of healthcare centres in rural areas have been published on the Icelandic Health Insurance website.

The Data Protection Authority has, with its decision on June 27, proposed that the Directorate of Health takes measures to prevent unauthorized searches in the prescription portal and that the Office ensures that the searches in the prescription portal will be traceable to individual employees in pharmacies before September 1.

A bill on changes to the electoral law has been published in the government consultation portal