Four MPs are calling for a psychiatric ambulance service to be established in Oslo and Akershus. The proposers argue that people in psychiatric crisis are currently often picked up by police, which they find stigmatizing, and that the Berg model operating since 2005 has shown that health personnel can handle such situations more effectively than police.
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The Storting calls on the government to establish a psychiatric ambulance service for the capital region modeled on the arrangement in Bergen.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that a psychiatric ambulance service for the capital region is staffed by health personnel with specialist expertise in mental health, and is organized in a way that allows it to relieve police of calls involving psychiatric crises.
The Storting calls on the government to consider establishing psychiatric ambulance services in other major cities and towns across Norway, beyond the capital region, based on experience from such arrangements.