On Friday 13 May, legal assistants of judges visited the Supreme Court.

The West Iceland Healthcare Institution has received a grant from the memorial fund of Bergþóra Magnúsdóttir and Jakob Bjarnason. The memorial fund is managed by the Directorate of Health and grants are granted from it to projects intended to improve the quality and safety of healthcare.

The Directorate of Health hereby announces a change in administrative practices for issuing specialist licenses to social workers.

Changes in the administration of assistive devices to improve service, shorten waiting times, and increase efficiency in application processing.

In a bill from the Minister of Social Affairs and Housing, which was presented to Althingi on 10 November, it is proposed that a one-off payment in December be made for old-age pension, disability pension and new medical- and rehabilitation allowance.

Simpler application processing and shorter processing times.

A MoniForSoil network's conference in Hveragerði on September 2nd will concentrate on the advancement of soil monitoring systems within forested regions. The conference program is now accessible, and registration is currently underway, with a deadline of August 5th.

Akureyri Hospital (SAk) has implemented a new digital medication prescribing system for cancer treatments, known as the Cato system, which significantly improves the safety and efficiency of treatment for patients receiving chemotherapy. The system was first adopted at Landspítali (the National University Hospital of Iceland) at the end of 2022 and has now been introduced at SAk.

The service office of the Directorate of Labour in Reykjanesbær will be closed from Monday, August 18th due to relocation.

Upon the issuance of an adoption permit, all legal connections between the adopted child and the biological parents, as well as other relatives such as ...