- Individuals
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Businesses
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Water and the environment
- Romani affairs
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Government agencies
- Licences, notices and applications
- Guidance and advice
- Advice on the Finnish Health Protection Act
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Contamination of water supply
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Coordination of tobacco control
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Water and the environment
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Customer service
Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
One of society’s core functions is to ensure that every citizen has access to adequate and as equal as possible health care services in accordance with the normalcy principle.
Together with Vavira, we advise and enforce the provision of health care services in accordance with the law. The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland is the national authority for the enforcement of the provision of health care services to prisoners and the Defence Forces. The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland is also the central enforcing authority for health care professionals. Enforcement is carried out both prospectively with assessment and guidance visits and inspections and retrospectively in the form of complaints and inspections.
Right to good health care and equal treatment
Everyone living permanently in Finland has the right to seek health care for their condition without discrimination and within the resources available for the health care system at the time. The ‘normalcy principle’ must be observed in a person’s right to access good health care and how they are treated.
In the context of health care in prisons, the normalcy principle refers to the principle that the only restriction imposed by a prison sentence should be the loss of freedom.
Access to medical care
We enforce access to medical care under the guaranteed access to health care scheme. Guaranteed maximum waiting times apply to access to basic and specialist health care services. There are defined maximum time frames for accessing medical care.
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patients’ rights and statusfiling a complaint about a social or health care service provider.
Further information
- Sinikka Salo, Senior Medical Officer of Regional Administration, tel. +358 (0)295 017 028
- Pasi Eskola, Senior Medical Officer of Regional Administration, tel. +358 (0)295 017 573
- Matti Vainiokangas, Senior Officer, health care, tel. +358 (0)295 017 563
- emails: [email protected]