Iceland Health is hereby advertising for operators who are interested in taking on the management of nursing homes with 80 to 150 spaces.

Iceland Health, the Ministry of Health and the Healthcare Institute of East Iceland signed an agreement yesterday on ophthalmology in East Iceland. The agreement guarantees this service to residents in East Iceland.

Two members of the Reykjavík City Council's gardening department recently paid a visit to the Land and Forest Iceland office in Mógilsá. They presented the office with an old podium, handcrafted for the department years ago from local Icelandic wood.

The medical imaging department of the Akureyri Hospital has hired Christine Jacqueline Tolman as the position of X-ray physician. She starts today and will be at SAk for at least one year.

Fríða Bjarney Jónsdóttir, coordinator of the MEMM at the Ministry of Education and Children wrote an article published on Vísir on 29 October.

On Wednesday 17 October, an open house was held at the improved psychiatric ward of the Hospital in Akureyri (SAk) where colleagues and guests had the opportunity to view the new facilities of the ward.

Psychologist Líney Úlfarsdóttir specializes in mental health for the elderly at HSN. She says awareness is needed about the need for social isolation of the elderly, which is growing in the western world and is a serious public health issue on the pair with smoking and alcohol abuse.

Response plan activated.

A new project in public innovation is underway with the intention of adopting financial technologies into public acconting practices.