Directorate for Health (Norway)

The Directorate for Health is a specialist director and an administrative body under the Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. The Directorate is administered by the Ministry of Health and Care Services.  In EuHPN the Directorate is represented by The Competence Network for Hospital Planning (CNHP) and SINTEF acts as representative for the Network. The CNHP is financed and owned by the Norwegian State through the Directorate for Health.  SINTEF Health Research acts as the Secretariat for the network and the Editor for the web portal www.sykehusplan.no (access in English via http://www.sykehusplan.no/index.php?lng=1).