Recently, the Icelandic Association of the Blind and the Organization of Disabled in Iceland released new detailed guidelines on the installation of tactile paving and attention areas indoors to create good accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals.

Iceland Health regrets that information for healthcare was mistakenly sent out to a limited group of service recipients and healthcare professionals, in connection with a change in the transmission of data. Processing was stopped as soon as the case was discovered.

The Directorate of Fisheries' system is being updated in accordance with the amendments to the regulation and applications will then be opened tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, 9th of April.

On the night before Christmas, Ásgeir Örn Jónsson, a specialist in emergency medicine at HSN in Akureyri, was on duty when a call came in that turned into a wonderful Christmas adventure.

The Social Insurance Administration has published on TR's My pages a annual salary slip for 2024 for approximately 77 thousand individuals with amounts pre-registered on the tax return for 2025. We note that there is no need to change pre-registered amounts on the tax return.

Jóna Bára Jónsdóttir, nursing director of the HSU Health Care Center in Höfn in Hornafjörður

Those issued a commercial pilot’s license are subject to strict health requirements. Decisions regarding the revocation of a medical certificate, and consequently the loss of rights, are taken seriously and made with aviation safety as the primary consideration.

Continuing to be satisfied

A new Medical Director of Health, María Heimisdóttir, has joined the Directorate of Health.

Icelandic timber offers significant potential for diverse product development. Global timber demand is increasing, and Icelandic forests will yield substantially more timber in the coming years. This is a key finding from a report commissioned by the South Iceland Forest Owners' Association, summarising initial assessments of Icelandic forest resource utilisation.