An interactive dashboard showing statistics on waiting for nursing homes has now been published on the Directorate of Health's website.

The Directorate of Health has, in collaboration with other parties, issued an information letter (in Icelandic) to sports and youth organisations and other organisations that work with children, reminding them of their responsibility for preventing and responding to violence.

Join us! The Department of Human Resources recently created promotional videos that give an insight into the work of nurses and midwives at the Hospital in Akureyri.

An interactive dashboard showing the number of awaited hip and knee replacement surgeries, along with the number of performed surgical procedures since 2021, has now been published on the website of the Directorate of Health.

Berglind Ragnarsdóttir, nurse, has several hats in her work, she is a division manager at the nursing home Hvammur in Húsavík and the head of nursing departments at HSN, as well as doing daily nursing work.

A report on the implementation of the study Health and Wellbeing in Iceland 2022 is now available on the study's website at the Directorate of Health.

New fishing year begins on 1st of September. We encourage parties to familiarize themselves with the implementation of allocations and transfers for the upcoming fishing year.

A review of death certificates from the Directorate of Health has revealed that there have been 153 deaths in Iceland due to COVID-19 from the beginning of the epidemic until 1 April 2022.

The Social Affairs Minister’s bill on temporary support for wages due to natural disasters in Grindavík was approved by the Icelandic parliament, Althingi, on 27 November.