Six MPs—Marius Langballe Dalin, Arild Hermstad, Julie E. Stuestøl, Siren Julianne Jensen, Oda Indgaard, and Ingrid Liland—proposed developing smaller hospitals, decentralizing outpatient services, and reducing travel distances for healthcare access. The Standing Committee on Health and Care Services recommends against adopting the proposal, though individual committee members have tabled separate motions on ambulance services, waiting lists, and funding for local hospitals.
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The Storting calls on the government to present a plan outlining the role and functions of smaller hospitals in the future.
The Storting calls on the government to expand outpatient services at local hospitals across all relevant medical specialties, with the aim of delivering as much outpatient care as practicable near where patients live.
The Storting calls on the government to examine whether a new category of hospital—called a 'local hospital'—should be established, offering limited emergency capacity (for example through collaboration between municipal health services and internists) alongside comprehensive outpatient specialist services.
The Storting calls on the government to review how ambulance services should be organized in rural areas, including home-based standby, meeting-point systems, and integration with municipal services such as fire brigades, and to report back to the Storting with a proposal, including any necessary changes to laws and regulations.
The Storting calls on the government to revise the allocation formula for regional health authorities to ensure smaller hospitals and ambulance services have resources to fulfil their assigned roles, as outlined in the plan for smaller hospitals.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that local hospitals actively contribute to reducing waiting lists in specialist healthcare services, consistent with the government's waiting time commitment, and to keep the Storting informed accordingly.
The Storting calls on the government to establish a waiting list reduction project at Lærdal Hospital by 1 August 2026 to address healthcare queue pressures in the region.
The Storting calls on the government to present a proposal on how ambulance response time targets can be met in all municipalities nationwide.
The Storting calls on the government to urgently review changes to the allocation formula for regional health authorities to ensure local hospitals and ambulance services have resources to carry out their functions, and to ensure the formula accounts for emergency readiness costs and the costs of maintaining and developing decentralized specialist services.
Document 8:133 S (2025–2026) – Private member's bill from MPs Marius Langballe Dalin, Arild Hermstad, Julie E. Stuestøl, Siren Julianne Jensen, Oda Indgaard, and Ingrid Liland on developing smaller hospitals, decentralizing outpatient services, and reducing travel distances for healthcare access – is rejected.