It offers general medicine, psychiatry, gynaecology, maternity and children's care, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
The primary care system also endeavours to prevent illness by means of health promoting measures, including family centres, paediatric and maternity care centres, education and information for parents and in schools.
The County Council is the principal for medical care, and ensures that all residents in the county have access to primary care services.
The County Council is also responsible for ensuring that the primary care offered is accessible and has the correct medical quality.
The Västernorrland County Council has introduced a care choice model in primary care, Vårdval Västernorrland. This means that you as the patient can choose the district clinic to which you want to belong.
Inhabitants aged 16 and older, can choose one of the district clinics, private and public, which have been approved by Västernorrland County Council. All district clinics have to meet the same requirements.
You can find information about all the district clinics by visiting “Hitta Vård”, here on the web site. You can also compare the quality of the district clinics.
Read here, about how you can choose or change your district clinic.
Primary care has to meet the needs of the population as regards basic medical treatment, care, public health and rehabilitation, when the person does not need the medical and technical resources of a hospital, or other specialist competence.
Primary care, Västernorrland County Council
Postal address: Primärvården Västernorrland, 871 85 Härnösand Visiting address: Närvård Härnösand, entrance; Västra entrén, Södra vägen 3-5, Härnösand Telephone: 0611-800 00 (exchange)Fax: 0611-840 33
This is where you can find information about district clinics, and contact information
The task of the hospitals is to provide you as a citizen of the county with medical care which requires the special resources of a hospital. Both emergency and planned care in a number of different specialities are available at our hospitals.
Find your hospital Härnösand Sollefteå Sundsvall Örnsköldsvik
All medical specialities (apart from thorax and neurosurgery) are available at the County Hospital. Some of the clinics are responsible for providing county medical care for the population of all of Västernorrland County. The County Hospital has facilities in Sundsvall and Härnösand. There is also a medical rehabilitation unit and specialist clinics at Härnösand.
Specialist care is available 24 hours a day at Sundsvall. There are clinics with ward beds for people who need treatment for infectious diseases, skin complaints and ear and eye problems, for oncology with radiology treatment, orthopaedics, urology, internal medicine and surgery, and children's and maternity/gynaecology wards.
Clinics which work with rehabilitation have excellent support from a large paramedical facility with physiotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, etc. Medical services include a radiology clinic, clinical physiology, hospital physics, laboratory medicine and pathology.
The psychiatric clinic is responsible for in-patient care and emergency care for residents in the entire county, and has a number of different clinics and wards. Child and adolescent psychiatry has clinics in both Härnösand and Sundsvall. There is also a regional forensic psychiatric clinic at Sundsvall.
Sollefteå Hospital is a full A&E hospital, with specialities such as paediatrics, gynaecology/obstetrics, surgery/orthopaedics, medicine and ophthalmology.
As the county district hospital, Örnsköldvik Hospital has a wide range of specialities including children’s and young people’s medicine, gynaecology/obstetrics, radiology, audiology, ophthalmology, surgery, orthopaedics, anaesthetic and intensive care, internal medicine, geriatrics and psychology.
Children and young people in Västernorrland have free dental care until the end of the year in which they turn 19.
All adults aged 20 and above have the right to dental care support, which is made up of two parts. One is a general dental care grant in the form of a credit at the Social Insurance office; the other part is a dental care grant which protects you against high costs.
The main assignment of the Public Dental Service is to contribute to life and health in Västernorrland, by promoting good dental care on equal terms for everybody.
The Public Dental Service does everything from the most common dental treatments to the most complicated specialist dental treatment, in collaboration with the medical care system.
The Public Dental Service has dental clinics all over Västernorrland County. Its facilities include 21 general dental clinics, a hospital dental clinic and specialist dental care in the areas of orthodontics, oral surgery, prosthodontics, periodontics, oral physiology and radiology. The Public Dental Service also has 2 dental laboratories. Visiting dental care is offered, in collaboration with the municipalities, to people who are not able to manage their daily oral hygiene themselves.
About 95% of all children and 50% of all adults in the county are patients at the Public Dental Service.
Find... ----Your Dental clinic---- Härnösand Kramfors Sollefteå Sundsvall Timrå Ånge Örnsköldsvik
You should be able to live in a county with financial, ecological and socially sustainable development. The Regional Development department has been given this task, in collaboration with other bodies in the county, region, country and internationally.
The County Council has identified three challenges as being of particular strategic importance for growth in the county in the next few years. They are related to the long-term processes that we see are needed to renew and improve the county’s prosperity:
We can initiate processes, in collaboration with EC structural funds and other bodies in the county, to develop new knowledge and insights, and find the stimulus for conscious development.
The County Council collaborates with other bodies, we run our own projects, finance others’ projects and work to stimulate and support cultural activity in the county, so that all residents can enjoy a flourishing cultural life with a highly varied offering.
The County Council has financial responsibility for regional public transport and for transporting sick people.
The County Council owns a limited company, Västernorrlands Läns Trafik AB (Din Tur) together with the county’s municipalities. The company purchases plans, coordinates and markets public transport services in the county.
Västernorrland County Council is a member of Norrtåg, which is a cooperative society in northern Sweden for railway traffic operation and infrastructure. Norrtåg AB is jointly owned by the four northernmost county public transport companies.
The County Council provides education in the county and is the principal of three of the county’s five Folk High Schools plus the Emergency Services School on Sandö and the Agricultural Schools in Nordvik and Skedom.
The chief objectives is to create prerequisites for a positive regional development but also to improve the services to citizens and customers. This is carried out through:
The County Council is one of the partners in Mid Sweden Office with a representation in Brussels. MSO is a partnership between the county councils, the county boards and the federations of municipalities in the counties of Jämtland and Västernorrland.
The main task of the County Council’s secretariat at the County Council’s offices in Härnösand is to lead, coordinate and develop the County Council’s operations. The staff work with strategic matters that concern the entire County Council.
The staff consists of the Administration, Ordering, Finance and Accounts, Research and Development, Property, Health and Medical Care, Information, IT and Personnel units.
The County Council staffs provide service to the political organisation and are also responsible for direction and follow-up, with extensive local freedom of action in our highly decentralised organisation.
The main task of the County Council Service department is to provide service to patients and personnel at the County Council’s other units.
County Council Service is part of both our core and our service areas and is funded partly from grants and partly from income. It includes the following departments:
