The Queue at the Polyclinic Is Several Months Long, but It "Dissolves" for Money: They Told Us What Will Happen After the Reform

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The queue to see a specialist can be several months long, but if you pay, you can get in the same week. Such stories, when you can "bypass" the queue if you have money, are also shared by patients from public institutions. Although the government has decided to ban illegally charged surcharges, which are most common in private institutions, such paid services are not going away.

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The government has agreed to temporarily postpone the termination of so-called contract work agreements between specialist doctors at Akureyri Hospital. The hospital's director says every effort is being made to avoid service cuts. The Minister of Health said in the autumn that contract work agreements, contracting agreements between specialist doctors and health institutions, would be terminated because they made it easier for doctors to charge…