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TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

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Patients deserve more than Centre’s fear of a Left Party minister

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Blood-testing tubes and supplies arranged in a compartmented tray at a Swedish primary-care centre.

Essential Healthcare

Curved prescription counter beneath a Recept + Rådgivning sign at Apotek Hjärtat in Tyresö

News

Amimox shortage: alternatives need a new prescription

A nurse leans over a hospital bassinet while caring for a swaddled newborn.

News

Sweden orders new maternity-care safety measures

A teenager talks with a therapist in a bright counselling room.

News

Sweden expands oversight of specialist eating-disorder care

Latest in Healthcare

An emergency doctor vehicle at Huddinge centrum in Stockholm County.

News

Critical Stockholm ambulance calls assigned too low a priority

A physiotherapist guides a seated patient extending one leg in a clinical rehabilitation room.

News

Sweden adopts rehabilitation strategy to narrow care gaps

A clinician in a white coat types on a laptop beside a stethoscope and handwritten notes.

News

Swedish bill would expand national health-data registers

A surgeon looks through an eye-surgery microscope while another clinician stands behind him.

News

Cataract grants may have relied on inflated regional figures

A masked surgeon uses an operating microscope while an assistant stands beside a draped eye-surgery patient.

News

Surgery grants put medical priorities at risk in 16 Swedish regions

Editorial illustration of two result streams converging into one surveillance ledger.

News

Chickenpox and RSV cases to become reportable from November 1

A complete prefilled syringe labelled AJOVY 225 mg rests on a neutral surface.

News

No Swedish region meets migraine specialist-care benchmark

An estradiol transdermal medicine box beside a transparent skin patch and a coin for scale.

News

Sweden raises oestrogen patch prices as supply stays uncertain

An empty dental treatment room with a chair, overhead light and clinical instruments.

Politics

S wants 10% cap on adults’ dental treatment bills

Editorial illustration contrasting many linked clinic records with only a few continuous care links.

News

Sweden registers 66% with a fixed doctor. Only 31% experience one

A cardiotocography printout recording fetal heart rate and contractions during labour.

News

Baby died after missed monitoring in an overloaded Swedish maternity ward

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson speaks with a sign language interpreter at Almedalen Week in June 2025.

Politics

S wants to bar insurance priority at publicly funded clinics

Editorial illustration of blank health-record files between a broken system route and a continuing hospital route.

News

Swedish region pays SEK 657m to exit failed health-record system

A masked cardiac surgical team works around a covered patient area with monitors and clinical equipment.

News

Two patients may need heart transplants after Karolinska drug mix-up

A doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to a young patient's chest during a medical examination.

Politics

Sweden links child health checks from birth to age 20

An empty dental treatment room with a chair, overhead light and clinical instruments.

News

Sweden raises urgent dental costs for asylum seekers with means

A smiling toddler is held by an adult while receiving a vaccination.

News

Sweden adopts free chickenpox vaccination for children

European Health Insurance Cards tucked into a brown leather wallet.

Nordics & Europe

Important to know: EU health cards do not replace travel insurance

A caregiver hands a cup of tea to an older woman seated in a care home.

Making It

Forged assistant-nurse certificate triggers nationwide checks

Green beans and red apples displayed in crates at a produce market.

Economy

Sweden funds healthcare, but healthy eating is still a class issue

A female castor bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) resting on dry grass.

Healthcare

Watch out this summer: TBE infections rising sharply

An older woman wearing a face mask walks with a rollator on a sidewalk in Jönköping.

Healthcare

Sweden mobilised SEK 155bn for Ukraine. Elderly care still lacks workers

Danvikshem nursing home beside the water in Stockholm.

Healthcare

Sweden expands national workforce plan to eldercare

The Försäkringskassan sign on the agency’s main office building in Stockholm.

Family

Försäkringskassan told to speed support for parents of seriously ill children

A person holding a smartphone with its screen visible.

Health

Sweden orders review of social media's effects on boys

Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm.

Politics

Government and opposition split over targeted healthcare grants

Aedes aegypti mosquito, a vector for chikungunya virus, on human skin

Healthcare

Ixchiq vaccine use restricted to people at high chikungunya risk

Alopecia areata causing a distinct bald patch on the back of an adult's head

Healthcare

Stronger safety warnings coming for alopecia medicine Litfulo

An electrical substation in Tuntorp, Lysekil Municipality. Energy is one of 11 sectors covered by the resilience bill.

Civil Society

Swedish bill sets resilience duties for 11 critical sectors

The Trygg-Hansa office complex on Fleminggatan in Stockholm, near Statskontoret's visiting address.

Belonging

Protected housing in Sweden increasingly a last resort, investigator says

An archival view through a damaged wall towards a maternity hospital struck in Dnipro, Ukraine

Civil Society

MSF report documents widening attacks on healthcare in Ukraine

A newborn baby held skin to skin on a parent's chest with the baby's face visible

Health

Karolinska study finds newborn collapse clusters in first hours

An archival Red Cross Ebola response team in Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Africa

Sweden allocates SEK 45 million to regional Ebola response

The Helix forensic psychiatric clinic building in Flemingsberg, Huddinge.

Healthcare

Inquiry will examine state responsibility for forensic psychiatric care

Entrance to the Public Health Agency of Sweden in Solna.

Health

Sweden orders review of generative AI risks for children

Workers receive boxes of vaccine doses delivered to the Central African Republic.

Healthcare

Sweden allocates SEK 250 million to vaccines and maternal health

A person jumping high above a trampoline outdoors.

Healthcare

Summer months account for 35% of Sweden’s injury-related sick leave cases

A woman uses a finger-stick glucose meter to test her blood sugar.

Healthcare

Swedish regulator warns against diabetes supplement promoted through fake AI videos