MP Kjersti Toppe proposes decentralizing hospital services across Norway. She argues that local hospitals form the backbone of healthcare and must at minimum offer broad-based expertise in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesia, radiology, and laboratory services. The proposal specifically targets planned centralizations at Ringerike Hospital and the closure of psychiatric overnight services in Tynset.
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The Storting calls on the government to develop a local hospital plan that ensures local hospitals develop broad-based expertise, emergency preparedness responsibility, and a wide range of planned outpatient services, and to present the plan to the Storting by the end of 2026.
The Storting calls on the government to issue clear guidance to health trusts that local hospitals must at minimum have broad-based expertise in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesia, radiology, and laboratory services, in addition to maternity units where these are currently established.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that Ringerike Hospital maintains its urology services, and to evaluate decentralizing additional patient services to the local hospital.
The Storting calls on the government to halt the process of specialization and functional division in Vestre Viken Health Trust and ensure that any new process cannot lead to centralization of acute and maternity services in the trust or weaken local hospitals' broad-based expertise.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that Innlandet Hospital Health Trust maintains and strengthens its district psychiatric centre in Tynset with overnight beds, in line with Storting Resolution No. 414 (2025–2026) on developing district psychiatric centres throughout Norway and preventing the closure of such services.