On November 3, the Ministry of Health and Welfare presented a draft act on changes to health regulations necessary to introduce the announced changes in the organization of the central health administration.
The proposed changes include: in the Public Health Act, the Infection Control Act, the Medicines Act, the Act on Specialized Health Services and the Act on Health and Care Services. The agencies directly affected by the changes to the law are the Directorate of Health, the Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian Medicines Agency.
The aim of the reorganization is, among other things, to achieve more transparent roles and division of responsibilities between different agencies. For example, the Directorate of Health is intended to be solely a "power agency", while the FHI (Norwegian Institute of Public Health) is intended solely to be a "knowledge agency".
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Today's health administration is based on a threefold division of roles between government tasks, surveillance activities and knowledge production. The changes aim to make this three-fold division clearer and more consistent
The Ministry also proposes to transfer the competences for examining complaints about decisions made under the Act on Patient and User Rights from the Commission for Complaints about Medical Treatment. border to the National Health Service Complaints Body (Helseklage). The proposal concerns the decision to cover medical expenses abroad when: In Norway there is no such offer or it has been documented that health care abroad is more effective.
Changes to the law are to enter into force on January 1, 2024.
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Source: regjeringen
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