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Country profiles of health system responses to the crisis | Norway
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Salaries and motivation of health sector workers
• No response reported.
Payment to providers
• As part of the coordination reform, increased financial responsibility was
given to the municipalities and there has been a shift in funding from
hospitals to municipalities (since 2012).
Overhead costs: restructuring the Ministry of Health and purchasing agencies
• No response reported.
Provider infrastructure and capital investment
• Introduction of a coordination reform to shift resources from specialist to
primary care and prevention (measures implemented from 2012).
Priority setting or protocols to change access to treatments, coordination
of care and patterns of use
• Introduction of measures to improve coordination of care and reduce use of
hospital services (e.g. agreements between hospitals and municipalities regarding
handling of patients with chronic diseases and patients who no longer need
hospital treatment), as part of the coordination reform (since 2012).
• Mini-HTAs were carried out by the regional health authorities to slow down
the implementation of new and undocumented technologies (since 2013).
Waiting times
• No response reported.
Health promotion and prevention
• Strengthened role for municipalities in health promotion and prevention
activities (2012).