At the end of March, Iceland Health made agreements on joint replacement surgery with Handlæknastöðina (Cosan) and Klíníkina.

Processing fees were increased at the end of the year

A major milestone in digitizing the process of learning has to drive is now being achieved with the activation of the digital driving study book by the Icelandic Transportation Authority.

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, has appointed Herdís Gunnarsdóttir as director of the Welfare Quality and Inspection Authority, which took up the post on 1 April 2022.

The aim of the project is to build a system, the Icelandic webservices, that provides information on government data and web services to users.

A major emphasis is on making the Island.is website accessible to all individuals. As part of that effort, it was decided to introduce a web-based platform for all articles on the website.

A new health clinic in Sunnuhlíð, Akureyri, was officially opened yesterday, March 4. See photos from the opening.

Key healthcare indicators are published for the first time today and the indicators are discussed in the newly released Talnabrunnur, electronic newsletter on health information.

There has been a 20% increase in emergency arrivals of people aged 75 and over since before Covid-19, with a corresponding increase in this age group's admission to SAk wards.

In Februarky, 89% of expectant parents chose the digital parental leave application process.