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EURES April 2004
For vacancies you may look up the Norwegian Public Employment Service homepage (Aetat) (in Norwegian only)
Predefined search for vacant positions for health personnel:
Other webpages with vacancies for health personnel are:
Notice that practising as health personnel in Norway requires official registration by the Norwegian authorities. The Norwegian Registration Authority for health personnel (SAFH) will grant the authorisation; www.safh.no
A job in the Norwegian health services requires good knowledge of the Norwegian language. Information about language course possibilities in your home country may be obtained from the Norwegian embassy/consulate. You may also find information on language courses at the Language Learning Net.
1. The Municipal health service (Kommunehelsetjenesten) consists of: general practitioners services, emergency room services, physiotherapy, nursing homes, midwife services and nursing services including health visitor services and homebased services. The health services are performed by personnel employed by the municipality or private practising personnel with a reimbursement agreement with the municipality. The municipality may also organise occupational therapy and occupational health services. The municipality shall also run preventative healthwork.
2. The Regional Health Authorities (Regionale helseforetak) took over the responsibility and tasks from the counties from 1 January 2002. With this reform the state now have responsibility for specialistservices (the public hospitals and psychiatric institutions, ambulance services, emergencycall services, hospital pharmacies, laboratories and some of the drug rehabilitation institutions). The hospitals and the institutions are organised in hospital/trusts under the Regional Health Authorities. There are five Regional Health Authorities:
- Helse Nord (covers the counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark),
- Helse Midt-Norge (Nord-Trøndelag, Sør-Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal),
- Helse Vest (Rogaland, Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane),
- Helse Sør (covers Vest-Agder, Aust-Agder, Telemark, Vestfold and Buskerud, and the hospitals Rikshospitalet, Radiumhospitalet and Spesialsykehuset for epilepsi)
- Helse Øst (Oslo, Akershus, Oppland, Hedmark and Østfold).
The Regional Health Authorities are imposed the responsibility to provide healthservices to the population in the specific geographical area.
3. Private health service (Privat helsetjeneste) consists of private practising healthpersonnel that do not have a reimbursement agreement with the municipality. For instance general practitioners and physiotherapists that are not connected to the municipality health services, dentists and chiropractors. There are also approved private hospitals and occupational healthcare services.
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