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According with the Health Care Act you have the right to choose your care unit for non-urgent health care from all health centres and hospitals in Finland.
The patient can choose health centre, who is responsible for hers/his services in primary healthcare. The health centre can be changed with a written notification at most once a year.
The health center in your own residental area is automatically your own health centre. You can change health centre when you want within the wellbeing services county or choose it from an other wellbeing services county or Helsinki. You can also change maternity and child health clinic within your own wellbeing services county.
If you choose a health centre from another wellbeing services county or Helsinki, the choice also applies for oral health care, maternity and child health clinic services, rehabilitation services and medical supplies distribution as well as short-term care at a health centre hospital. You can can only get these services from one wellbeing services county at a time.
The specialist health care unit can be chosen together with the doctor who is giving the referral.
You can find information on how to choose care unit on the web pages of Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (STM).
If you want to change health centre within Vantaa and Kerava wellbeing services county, send a freely written message through Maisan to your current health centre or fill in a notification of change of health centre.
Take or post the form to your current health centre. The change will enter into force within three weeks upon receipt of the notification. If you use maternity and child health services, the change of clinic is made with an oral notification in the clinics telephone service or at your visit to the clinic.
If you as an inhabitant in Vantaa and Kerava wellbeing services county want to change health centre to another wellbeing services county or Helsinki, you have to an notify the change with a separate written form both to your current as well as your new health centre.
Fill in the form for the wellbeing services county, which health centre you want to change to. The form and more detailed instructions can be found on the web pages for your chosen wellbeing services county.
Take also the form to your current health centre. The change of health centre will take effect about three weeks from the notification.
If you are an inhabitant in another municipality or wellbeing services county and want to change to a health centre located in Vantaa and Kerava wellbeing services county, you have to fill inte the form Ilmoitus terveysaseman valinnasta.
The choice also applies for oral health care, maternity and child health clinic services and short-term care at a health centre hospital. Fill in the form in two copies. Take the printed and signed form to your current health centre and post the other copy to the address Vantaan ja Keravan hyvinvointialue, hallinto, PL 1000, 01301 Vantaa.
The change is personal, i.e. if necessary, e.g. a separate notification has to be filled in for for underaged family members.
In gereral your wellbeing services county is responsible for the specialist health care. You can choose your special care unit anywhere in Finland.
If the doctor or dentist thinks you need examinations or care in a special care unit, you can decide together which public hospital or outpatient clinic the referrall will be sent to.
The choice of specialist health care unit only applies to non-urgent care.
If you live or reside regurlarly or for a longer period of time outside your own hometown/wellbeing services county, you can be treated in the wellbeing services county where you reside, even without choosing it as your care unit. The reason for living outside ones hometown can for instance be work, studies, leisure or a family member or a close person lives at the place.
The non-urgent care provided at the place of residency is based on the to the treatment plan made at the health centre in your home town. The health centre who is responsible for your treatment in your hometown won´t change and you only get those wellbeing services countys health services, that are included in your treatment plan.
Fill in the form: Ilmoitus ulkokuntalaisen oikeudesta kiireettömään hoitoon Vantaan ja Keravan hyvinvointialueella.
With the form you notify the need of treatment according to the treatment plan during your stay in the wellbeing services county as well as your chosen clinic i.e. health centre.
Take both the form and your treatment plan to your chosen health center in Vantaa and Kerava wellbeing services county and only the form to your health centre in your hometown. You get health services according to your treatment plan three weeks form the notification has arrived.