The latest issue of EPI ICE touches on healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial use in the EU/EEA and respiratory infections in Iceland during the season of 2023-2024.

As has become traditional in recent years, various events will take place in forests throughout Iceland during Midsummer under the title Líf í lundi or "Life in a grove" as you might put it in English.

We are now planning to renew English language teaching material for teenagers and therefore we are calling for English teachers at that level to be part of a working group. The task of the working group will be to submit proposals for the creation of new teaching material in cooperation with the editor.

On 22 April, we had a good guest from the Netherlands visiting SHH.

The annual meeting of the Healthcare Institution of North Iceland will be held in Hof Akureyri and in a teleconference Thursday September 5th at 2 pm.

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

Assisting refugees from Ukraine to enter the labour market in Iceland has been a success.

On 15 March, amendments to Act on Foreigners’ Right to Work No. 97/2002 were approved.

Today is the last day of coastal fishing. About 500 tons were left of the allocated coastal fishing quota this morning which is a little more than yesterdays catch.

Specialist in home medicine Kristrún Erla Sigurðardóttir and specialist in geriatric medicine Valgerður Þorsteinsdóttir have been appointed to work within the geriatric medicine team of SAk at Kristnesspítali.