The Social Insurance Administration is among the 130 entities that received recognition from the Equality Scale Award, the FKA’s dynamic project. This includes 93 companies, 15 municipalities and 22 public bodies. The criteria is to have a 40/60 gender ratio in the highest level of management.

Opportunities for increased cooperation between the professional fields and the staff of Lands- og skógar were among the topics discussed at the recently successful staff meeting. One of the topics discussed was how the staff can already use improvisational intelligence to assist with daily work.

Veltek, the Nordic health and welfare technology cluster, held a successful meeting on Wednesday 13 November under the heading “Where are the opportunities?”. The meeting was well attended by the cluster’s stakeholders and guests who contributed to a constructive discussion about the future of services and the possible implementation of health and welfare solutions.

The first round of the planned doctors’ strikes, which was set to begin at midnight, has been canceled after an agreement was reached on the main points of a new wage contract late last night.

Response plan activated.

A course is being planned for blind and visually impaired individuals on the use, care, and training of guide dogs, which is a prerequisite for maintaining an active application for a guide dog.

A symposium will be held at the Nordic House in Reykjavik on December 5th to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic parliament's approval of a special budget for the National Gift project. This project was created to address the decline in vegetation and soil erosion that Iceland has experienced since human settlement.

Guðrún Dóra Clarke has been appointed as Chief Medical Executive at the Healthcare Institution of North Iceland (HSN). It is planned that Guðrún Dóra will start working soon.

The Minister of Health has confirmed the Directorate of Health's new recommendations on minimum data recording in healthcare, published in Stjórnartíðindi, the Government‘s website, at the end of October.

New staff have started working at ISAC, the Icelandic Service for Accreditation.