What this document is
In January 2015, Norway's Ministry of Health and Care Services asked the Norwegian Directorate of Health, Helsedirektoratet, to develop a national strategy for bringing personalised medicine into public healthcare. This English-language summary sets out the resulting strategy's aims for the Norwegian health service as it works to adopt approaches that tailor diagnosis and treatment to an individual patient's genetic and molecular profile rather than a one-size-fits-all standard of care.
The underlying strategy drew on working groups made up of experts from medicine, technology and law, and Helsedirektoratet describes it as having been shaped through close collaboration with patient organisations and the wider healthcare sector rather than drafted solely within government.
Helsedirektoratet frames the strategy as an initial step rather than a finished program, to be followed by more concrete action plans as personalised medicine moves from research settings into everyday clinical practice. The directorate continues to publish updates on Norway's approach to emerging health technologies, including personalised medicine, through its English-language pages for international readers.
Where to find it
No current copy from Helsedirektoratet (Norwegian Directorate of Health) is linked here.