According to the Medical Director of Health and Public Health Act, the Directorate of Health is authorised to publish information from the Register of Licenced Healthcare Facilities. The purpose of publishing this information is to ensure quality and safety in healthcare.

This week, Salvör Norðdal, the Ombudsman for Children, and Herdís Gunnarsdóttir, the director of the Welfare Quality and Inspection Authority, met with experts from both institutions.

The Directorate of Fisheries has opened applications for 4,000 ton mackerel quota.

Remotely Piloted Aircrafts will be used for monitoring by the Directorate of Fisheries in November and we would like to ask fishermen to keep in mind that all recordings are carefully examined and fish that goes overboard is species analyzed.

The exchange market opens tomorrow, Wednesday, 24th of April 2024 at 14:00. The deadline for submitting tenders is until 14:00 on Wednesday the 1st of May 2024.

The first digital hunting cards were issued by the Environment Agency of Iceland today.

A generous gift

Today, January 25, there was a formal introduction of Lífsbrú – Centre of Suicide Prevention and Lífsbrú – Fund, in the premises of the Directorate of Health in Iceland.

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.

The Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority has published a new publication on Radiation in Computed Tomography (CT) scans and geographical criteria.