- 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
Chief Health Care Officer
A licenced health care professional or a health care professional with a protected title who is registered in Valvira’s Terhikki system, or the nationwide register containing information on Finnish health care professionals, may serve as a Chief Health Care Officer.
A Chief Health Care Officer must have appropriate degree and training and work experience of at least two years. Work experience can be demonstrated with a resume, CV, official record of work history or a copy of an employment certificate. The document must show that the Chief Health Care Officer has worked in a relevant field for at least two years after graduation. Consultants must have two years’ worth of work experience after qualifying as a consultant.
Chief Health Care Officers are responsible for ensuring that
- the unit’s operations fulfil the requirements laid down in the act and decrees on private health care
- the unit has enough trained and skilled staff to provide the service
- the unit’s facilities and equipment are appropriate
- the provided health care services are medically justified and compliant with patient safety requirements
- patient records are created and maintained in an appropriate manner
- necessary information is submitted to supervisory authorities for the processing of any patient complaints
- the unit’s operations comply with the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, including replying to objections.
A Chief Health Care Officer candidate must consent to serving as the company’s Chief Health Care Officer. The consent is given automatically upon signing in to the online system if the person signing in is the Chief Health Care Officer. If the Chief Health Care Officer is another person, they must submit a proof, such as a signature or an email, of their consent to serve as the company’s Chief Health Care Officer.
Depending on the range of services your company offers, you may need more than one Chief Health Care Officer. For example practices that offer consultation services with both nurses and physiotherapists will need two Chief Health Care Officers: a nurse, who is in charge on medical services, and a physiotherapist, who is in charge of physiotherapy services.
The Chief Health Care Officer must either own or be employed or otherwise contracted by the company applying for a licence. If the Chief Health Care Officer changes, the company must submit an application to amend the licence.