Our hospital in Longyearbyen Svalbard

Norwegian citizens:

Automatic members of the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme and have full rights in the welfare system.

• Paid according to standard deductibles. An overview of user fees can be found online: helsenorge.no
• Ordinary exemption card rights. (Exemption cards via HELFO are also valid on Svalbard.)
• Ordinary rights for Patient Travel: Travel, board and lodging are covered at government rates. (Link here)
• Have the right to referral to the mainland for health services not provided on Svalbard.

Non-Norwegian citizens with a Norwegian employer:

• Pay the ordinary user fee as mentioned above.
• Have ordinary rights via Patient Travel as mentioned above.

Tourists and non-Norwegian citizens without a Norwegian employer

Must pay for the consultation/service in full. (This applies e.g. to self-employed permanent residents without a Norwegian passport.)

PLEASE NOTE! Please note that Svalbard is outside Schengen, which may mean that European travel insurance does not cover expenses at the same level as on mainland Norway.

You are defined as a permanent resident of Svalbard when you are registered in the National Population Register as living on Svalbard with a planned stay of longer than six months. 

You are considered a visitor if the stay is shorter than six months. 

The Norwegian website helsenorge.no has important information about issues like GPs, health services and rights, your right to an interpreter, and other things that you should know about when living in Norway. 

Longyearbyen Hospital as of 2023 has 22 full-time employees, of which four are doctors and six are specialist nurses. There are also physiotherapists/manual therapists, public health nurses, midwives and a dentist at the hospital. The optician is present twice a year.

The hospital has six beds, including one intensive care bed with ventilator facilities and one bed for isolation in case of infectious disease. The hospital only hospitalises patients in case of acute incidents/emergency care.

The hospital has round-the-clock emergency preparedness with an on-call team consisting of a doctor, nurse anaesthetist and surgical nurse. 

We employ professionals within a wide array of diciplines, and we are always looking to recruit the most competent staff members.

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