The Standing Committee on Health and Care Services is reviewing a private member's bill from Kathy Lie, Anne Lise Gjerstad Fredlund, Sunniva Holmås Eidsvoll, and Ingrid Fiskaa calling for more predictable grant schemes for voluntary and nonprofit organizations in the health sector. The committee majority supports the proposals and asks the government to review funding schemes managed by the Norwegian Health Authority, speed up case processing, and enable multi-year grants and operational funding.
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The Storting calls on the government, in connection with its presentation of the 2027 budget proposal, to review the grant schemes administered by the Norwegian Health Authority and present concrete improvement proposals before announcing the competitive schemes for 2027, with particular attention to professional quality, relevance, greater predictability, and solutions for organizations that previously received support from the state budget but now fall outside current criteria. The government is asked to conduct this review in consultation with the organizations.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure faster processing of grant applications through the Norwegian Health Authority's schemes and establish rules allowing grants to be carried over to the next budget year when awards are made late in the year.
The Storting calls on the government to expand the use of multi-year grants and operational funding through the Norwegian Health Authority's schemes.
The Storting calls on the government to review and simplify reporting requirements, documentation, and application procedures in the Norwegian Health Authority's grant schemes, with the aim of reducing time spent and administrative burden on voluntary and nonprofit organizations.
The Storting calls on the government to strengthen coordination of grant schemes between the Norwegian Health Authority and other relevant directorates, so that organizations working across sectors receive more coherent and predictable frameworks.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that authorities make full use of their scope to offer preferential treatment to nonprofits in public procurement, and provide greater continuity for the nonprofit sector in procurement through measures such as longer contracts and fixed-term operating agreements.
The Storting calls on the government to establish an innovation fund to finance new service offerings by nonprofits, ensuring social innovation by nonprofit actors who have limited ability to build investment capital for new ventures.
The Storting calls on the government to follow up on the Supreme Court judgment (HR-2025-2425-A) and ensure that health enterprises, when purchasing private services, reserve these for nonprofit organizations where appropriate.