Too late, too vague, too soft: How and why the idea of the first point of contact in the Icelandic health care system has failed

• Published in: Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
• Main Author: Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Stjórnsýslustofnun 2015
• Subjects: Health care system; public policy; policy change; implementation; politics of health care; Opinber stefnumótun; stefnubreytingar; stefnu innleiðing; heilbrigðiskerfi; stjórnmál heilbrigðismála.; Varpa; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.irpa.is/article/view/3086; https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2015.11.2.3

This research is about ideas, interests and institutions in health care in Iceland. It describes how the idea of primary care centres as the first point of patients´ contact in health care, on one hand, and the idea of patients´ freedom to choose where to seek medical care, on the other, have been t...