Public authorities

Background The Public Health Agency of Sweden is tasked with following up national strategies within sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV and AIDS. The strategies contain interim goals, which can be followed up with...

Background Accessibility is one of the cornerstones of good healthcare. It is well known that lack of accessibility leads to increased patient safety risks; despite this, long waiting times for care have long...

The National Board of Health and Welfare recently published the first national survey of menopausal care and treatment. The survey showed large regional differences in the collection of medicines...

Background Sirona has in partnership with Region Västerbotten and Stockholm University participated in the Vinnova-funded program Challenge-driven innovation (UDI). Within UDI, collaborative projects are funded that work long-term to achieve the sustainability goals...

Background Since its inception, Sirona has had a strong focus on developing innovative, proactive and predictive solutions to healthcare challenges. Over the course of a few months, the possibilities of developing a...

Background The Public Health Agency of Sweden has been commissioned by the Government to develop, test and validate a model for health economic calculations regarding antibiotic resistance to better assess its consequences for society in...

Background In an effort to focus on quality, a political decision was made in 2012 to introduce a trial of quality-based financing (KBF) in specialized health care in Norway. The bill...

Background To ensure the continued provision of appropriate healthcare facilities and sufficient capacity in the future, one region planned to carry out major renovations, extensions and new construction of existing hospital buildings. The assignment included...

Background There are eleven national quality registers in the field of psychiatry, but compared to registers in many other diagnostic areas, development in the field has been slow and coverage is low. There are thus...

Background As part of the government's efforts to strengthen the life sciences sector, the government wanted to improve collaboration between research, business and healthcare to ultimately promote the adoption of innovation...