5,500 patients admitted to mental health hospital care in 2017
A total of 5,500 patients were sectioned into mental health care a total of 7,700 times in 2017.The figure is stable, but is a slight…
A total of 5,500 patients were sectioned into mental health care a total of 7,700 times in 2017.The figure is stable, but is a slight…
Nine people are infected with norovirus and have suffered from sickness at the Bergen’s Red Cross nursing home. Several departments are closed. ‘’We have implemented…
Through Norwegian Patient Injury Compensation (NPE), the state paid out more than NOK 1 billion after failures at Norwegian hospitals last year. This is an…
The Queen visited Emma and other patients Queen Sonja brought gingerbread cookies when she went to Ullevål Hospital in Oslo to meet some of the…
In the last five years, Norwegian Patient Injury Compensation (NPE) has paid almost NOK 140 million to Norwegian patients who should never have been operated….
It happens occasionally that the dentist pulls the wrong tooth, and that the surgeon operates on the good eye. Since 2012, unfortunate patients have received…
Many incurably sick cancer patients are not offered relief therapy shows a new doctoral degree from the Cancer Registry. Nearly four out of ten…
A third of breast cancer patients do not need chemotherapy according to a new American study. In Norway, the treatment is over diagnosed to many…
Police have arrested a middle age nurse who admits poisoning at least 4 elderly patients at a Bergen municipal nursing home. Officials were first notified…
More than every third of every nurse under the age of 30 say they have experienced harassment or abuse from patients and users last year, shows…
Approximately 6,500 patients have taken advantage of the free treatment option. The service has been among Høyre’s (H) top ten policies. ‘It is very…
ESA: Norway does not comply with EEA rights for hospital patients Norwegian authorities violate EEA rules by making it difficult for Norwegians to apply for…
Many Norwegian hepatitis C patients must wait a long time for treatment. One reason is the cost of expensive medicine due to a monopoly situation,…
– 14 days shorter waiting time for patients, according to a press release from the Government. Norwegian patients are waiting ever shorter for hospital treatment,…
Patients may disappear off waiting lists, and lose their right to treatment if the doctor ignores a field journal. The new Patient Rights Bill of…
Historic ruling in Norway. The doctor, Katarzyna Jachimowicz, was fired after refuse to insert the birth control IUD (Intrauterine Device) for women. The IUD is…
After 20 years, the number of complaints to the Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation (pasientskadeerstatning – NPE) quadrupled. By this year’s end, the figure…
It takes a lot for patients choose to complain about health care. Now the Consumer Council is making it easier to do. – Patients need…
Every year, hundreds of Norwegians have their feet amputated due to diabetes, and many also fear losing their sight. Nevertheless , health professionals omit to…
Despite Health Minister Bent Høies’ goal of zero “corridor patients” in 2016, over 17,000 patients have had to settle for a bed in a corridor…