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

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, has appointed Herdís Gunnarsdóttir as director of the Welfare Quality and Inspection Authority, which took up the post on 1 April 2022.

All about old-age pensions – it doesn’t have to be complicated, but a total of 70 people attended the seminar yesterday at Hlíðasmári 11. The seminar will be repeated in streaming media on Wednesday, 27 September from 16.00 – 19.00.

A food-related E. coli outbreak has been confirmed at Mánagarður preschool in Reykjavík, traced to a specific strain, STEC serotype O145.

The National Archives has issued a recommendation to the parties that are required to deliver documents to stop printing on paper on the data that originate in electronic form. The reason for this is changes made to Article 15 of the Act on Public Archives No. 77/2014 last summer, which addresses the delivery of documents and the right to information.

In accordance with instructions in the Data Protection Authority ruling, the statement on the treatment home in Varholt and Laugaland has been removed from the website of GEV.

In 2023, 18 people had their first artificial foot in Iceland, 53,564 applied for the European Health Insurance Card and 12,934 underwent colonoscopy.

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.

Ríkiskaup, on behalf of Iceland Health, is offering a framework contract for the purchase of hand-driven wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs and walking aids for health insured persons. The deadline for submitting tenders is 1.10.2024 at 9.00.