Piia Vuorela, who has led Finland's weakest-performing wellbeing services county for 150 days, rejects claims that she manages through fear, Yle reports. She says she is sorry if her actions have been experienced as frightening. Vuorela, 58, took over as director of the Central Finland wellbeing …

Varsinais-Suomi’s wellbeing services county abandoned plans to acquire a mobile dental clinic after calculating that it would cost more than a conventional treatment facility, Yle reports. Wellbeing services counties across Finland have closed dental clinics and replaced them with mobile dental u…

Päijät-Häme wellbeing services county expects to avoid an assessment procedure and receive more time to cover its deficit, Yle reports. County director Petri Virolainen said negotiations with the Ministry of Finance had ended and that the memorandum had already been approved verbally. The county …

Kanta-Häme wellbeing services county has closed health stations, cut jobs and saved tens of millions of euros, but it still faces an 85 million euro deficit, Yle reports. The Finnish Ministry of Finance has so far granted extensions for covering accumulated deficits to three wellbeing services co…

The North Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county, Pohde, is dismissing more than 300 employees after its change negotiations ended, Yle reported. MPs from the Oulu electoral district called the outcome regrettable but disagreed over its causes and possible solutions. Left Alliance MP Hanna Sarkki…

The small municipality of Lumijoki has filed a precautionary request for rectification over the planned closure of the Lumilyhty elderly care home, even though the decision has already been revoked, Yle reports. Lumilyhty is a communal housing unit for older people in Lumijoki. The municipality’s…

Kari Hakari began work this week as chief executive of the Kymenlaakso wellbeing services county, immediately facing negotiations over possible large-scale redundancies and a budget deficit of around 100 million euros, Yle reports. Hakari’s first day, August 24, included the launch of statutory c…

Psychiatric inpatient care is planned to move entirely away from Peltola, a psychiatric care complex in Oulu, Yle reports. The change would end a century of psychiatric treatment at the site. Peltola is also referenced in the debut album by Maustetytöt, a popular band from Vaala. The album is tit…

The Kymenlaakso wellbeing services county board plans to hold a two-day lobbying seminar in Helsinki costing an estimated 17,200 euros, Yle reports. The seminar will take place on September 17 and 18 in cooperation with communications agency Miltton, which also helped prepare the board’s current …

Kainuu’s wellbeing services county expects its full-year result to fall €7.9 million short of budget, based on figures from January to June, Yle reports. The annual budget was prepared with a surplus of slightly more than €10 million. The latest forecast puts the surplus at just €2.2 million. The…

Yle reports that the Kymenlaakso wellbeing services county in Finland is preparing extensive co-operation negotiations covering its entire workforce. The county executive board authorised the county’s management to begin the negotiations at a meeting on Tuesday. The start date, timetable and cont…

Cancer patients, particularly those with blood cancers, are worried after the Finnish Social Insurance Institution (Kela) stopped reimbursing certain expensive medications at the start of July. The costs have now shifted to the wellbeing services counties (hyvinvointialueet).Kela ended reimbursem…