Health rights
An overview of healthcare rights in Norway.
Healthcare in Norway
Here you will find basic information about how the health service works in Norway and who you should contact when.
Health rights for foreigners in Norway
Your rights as an employee, student, tourist, pensioner, refugee or asylum seeker in Norway.
Health rights and schemes in Norway
- Carer certificate
- Choosing a treatment centre
- Duty of confidentiality
- Exceeded waiting time
- General Practitioner (GP) / family doctor
- Healthcare rights for children and adolescents
- Home nursing and other healthcare services in the home
- Individual care plan and coordinator
- Interpreter in the health services
- Involuntary childlessness and assisted reproduction
- Occupational injury
- Out-of-hours medical service
- Personal support contact
- Right to medical care
- Rights of next of kin
- User-controlled personal assistance
Your right to medical care
Everyone living in Norway is entitled to essential medical and care services. This also applies to refugees and immigrants who are lawfully resident in the country.