The Faroese Hospital Service
The hospital service undertakes patient analysis, treatments, and care of people’s physical and mental health.
The Faroese Hospital Service includes the National Hospital of the Faroe Islands, the hospital in Klaksvík, the hospital in Suðuroy, specialised treatments abroad and health research.
The National Hospital of the Faroe Islands
The National Hospital of the Faroe Islands is Landssjúkrahúsið, the main hospital in the Faroe Islands, and it is the biggest singular workplace in the country. The vision is to offer Faroese people a good health service within continuously more medical specialities. When it is not possible to provide certain health services, the vision is to offer a safe patient treatment through a good co-operation with hospitals abroad.
There are approx. 850 employees divided into 30 different professions in Landssjúkrahúsið:
- 29 medical specialities (including consultant arrangements)
- 130 sleeping accommodations
- 8 thousand hospitalizations per year
- 60 thousand ambulatory treatments per year
- 525 thousand laboratory research studies per year
- 34 thousand radiological examinations per year
Clinical service departments are also at Landssjúkrahúsið, which provide services to treatment centres at the hospital and other external services. These treatment centres provided at Landssjúkrahúsið are radiology, research laboratory, anaesthesiology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.
The hospital in Klaksvík
Klaksvíkar sjúkrahús has one medical- and surgical ward with 22 sleeping accommodations.
The hospital in Klaksvík employs a Medical Chief Physician and two Surgical Chief Physicians. Substitutes take care of the anaesthesiology and other planned speciality treatments e.g. within urology, hand surgery and shoulder surgery etc.
The hospital in Suðuroy
Suðuroyar sjúkrahús has one medical- and surgical ward with 26 sleeping accommodations.
The hospital in Suðuroy employs a Medical Chief Physician and two Surgical Chief Physicians.
Specialised treatments abroad
Certain health services are not provided within the Faroese Hospital Service. Instead, patients are offered to receive health services abroad.
Many of the Faroese patients referred for health services abroad receive treatments at hospitals within the capital region of Denmark, the rest of the patients receive treatments at other public hospitals in Denmark.
According to the Faroese Hospital Service law, Chief Physicians within the Faroese Hospital Service are authorized to refer patients for certain health services abroad.
