In issue no. 7/2012 of this journal, Director Geir Stene-Larsen of the National Institute of Public Health claims that the swine-flu vaccine Pandemrix had been clinically tested and that my assertion...

Should we be surprised by the new hearing-round memo on the regular GP scheme sent out by the Ministry of Health and Care Services? Perhaps not. Bjarne Håkon Hanssen took office as Minister of Health...

The health services are not like other services. Not because they are so exceptional in nature, but because the health market functions poorly. Photo: Einar Nilsen «The Health Services Initiative has...

Norway can have the world’s best health services for individual patients, for the population as a whole or for the health workers – but not for all of them at the same time. That’s wishful thinking...

Emerging economies have the opportunity to rethink the provision of health services completely – and are doing so. Dare we learn from them? Photo: Einar Nilsen «We definitely study the organisation...

Emerging economies have the opportunity to rethink the provision of health services completely – and are doing so. Dare we learn from them? Photo: Einar Nilsen «We definitely study the organisation...

Perhaps we should manage the health services a little more like a metropolis such as New York City than like an enterprise such as Toyota? Photo: Einar Nilsen «What was needed to plan something like...

Is our domestic debate on the right to conscientious objection in some way related to the atrocities that were perpetrated during the Second World War? Perhaps. Photo: Einar Nilsen I’m in...

Who will select and provide quality assurance of published knowledge in the future? Photo: Einar Nilsen Information technology is transforming societies, cultures and power relationships. When...