The Public Health Indicators 2024 will be presented this Friday, 20 September, from 11:00-13:00. You will be able to follow the presentation in a stream.

A dashboard showing statistics on waiting for nursing homes has now been updated on the Directorate of Health's website.

A Nordic point-of-sight conference was held from 25 - 26 October at the Blind Society's house in Hamrahlíð 17. Participants from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden attended the conference, as well as several participants from Teams.

Risatómar smásögur, which contains stories by 26 children aged 6 - 12, has now been published for the seventh time at The Directorate of Education and School Services. The publication of Risatómar smásögur is part of the cooperative project Sögur, which hosted its awards ceremony on RÚV last Saturday.

Yesterday, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, and Unnur Sverrisdóttir signed an agreement on the Ministry’s funding of ISK 25,000 to the pilot project Roadmap.

The flora within the pumice areas of Þjórsárdalur, commonly referred to as Vikrar, has undergone significant alterations in the past few decades. Visual documentation captured over a twenty-year period at two distinct locations provides compelling evidence of these changes.

If a volcanic eruption starts again in Reykjanes, the Icelandic Transport Authority wants to, given the occasion, reaffirm the rules that apply

The GRÓ Land Restoration Training Programme celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows from its six-month training on 27 August at the Keldnaholt campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland. This is the 17th graduating cohort of GRÓ LRT and the first time the programme has graduated fellows from Kenya, a new GRÓ LRT partner country.

Hollvinir - Beneficiaries of Akureyri Hospital - gifted the hospital new endoscopic systems the other day. They did not stop there and gifted washing machines for the endoscopic systems as well.

SAk's well-attended Nutrition Day took place last week. The theme of the day was "ESPEN guidelines, clinical guidelines for hospital nutrition".