The Quality and Control Institute for Welfare (GEV) will in mid-September n.k. publish a report on the institute's survey of the treatment home in Varpholt and Laugalandi in the years 1997-2007.

On Sunday, 3 December, a ceremony occurred at Bessastaðir, where Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland, presented an award on Prevention Day 2023. Alma D. Möller, the Medical Director of Health and the President, gave a speech.

Applications are now accepted for regional quota for the fishing year 2023/2024.

The application deadline for the year 2024 is April 1st.

The first agreement on all dental services for a long period.

Ban on fishing with bottom trawl in Djúpál. The ban will take effect at 18:00 o'clock on the 17th of January 2024 and will remain effective until 18:00 o'clock on the 31st of January 2024.

Just before the new year, the Hollvina association donated three hospital beds to the HVE institution, two Eleganza II beds, along with a bedside trapeze/handle and Dynaform Mercury mattress and one Latera Therma bed as a rolling bed.

Annual reports have been issued for 2021 on cervical cancer screening and breast cancer screening.

The new summary examines the incidence of respiratory infections and hospitalisations due to them and compares the situation in Iceland with the situation in Europe.

Due to the large increase in PCR tests in recent days, people must expect up to three days until a result is received.