Due to Christmas, the opening hours at the Iceland Health will be changed.

From 1 January 2025, the National Labour Inspectorate will assume the role that the Directorate of Labour has had on the basis of the Law on Foreign Service Employees and duties, the Law on Temporary Workers and the Law on Workplace Certificates and Workplace Surveillance.

Currently, bills from the West Iceland Healthcare Authority are electronic and the sending of paper invoices and payment notes will cease.

Land and Forest Iceland is recruiting research assistants for summer fieldwork, encompassing ecological monitoring and research in drylands, wetlands, and forests to support Iceland's climate accounting. We also require summer personnel for fencing projects in Northeast Iceland.

The electronic test for additional driving licences (ÖR-próf) will begin on Friday 31 January.

Today, January 28th is Data Protection Day and on that occasion, Persónuvernd (The Icelandic DPA) holds a seminar in Kaldalón, Harpa, at 13-16.

The River Baths geothermal spa currently under development at Laugarás in Biskupstungur will by request utilise locally sourced timber for the construction. Nine batches of premium-grade spruce from a recently harvested Haukadalur forest plot have been supplied by Land and Forest Iceland after being meticulously processed at the Institute's Thjórsárdalur sawmill.

Changed opening at the Iceland Health

Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson is a specialty medical doctor in medicine and a new doctor at the University of Iceland.

Jón Gunnlaugur Jónasson is the National University Hospital of Iceland’s 2024 Honorary Scientist for outstanding contributions to science during his career. He is the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Pathology at the National University Hospital of Iceland and Professor of Pathology at the University of Iceland.