Important schedules for wellbeing service counties

This page contains important dates for information management in healthcare and social welfare for the wellbeing service counties.

The wellbeing service counties created in the health and social services reform will start to operate on 1 January 2023.

1 November 2021: The Client Data Act entered into force

Consent to data sharing
Common provision of Kanta information
Consent no longer required to view prescription information
Municipal social welfare services’ various registers merged into a single social welfare client register.

Access to client data will be easier once different service providers’ registers have been merged with the wellbeing service county’s sector-specific registers
Any client denials of consent to data sharing will not take effect within a single register of a wellbeing service county
The hospital districts’ joint register has ceased to exist and the obligation to provide information about the joint register has been removed
In Uusimaa, data will continue to be shared on the basis of a temporary right of access to information
Citizens are to be issued new information about the Kanta Services
The disclosure of social welfare client data via the Kanta Services is possible within the social welfare sector.

Clients may set comprehensive sector-specific (healthcare or social welfare services) denials of consent to data sharing (excluding prescription data)
Applying the denial to a private occupational health care provider’s register

The transition periods below may change due to the new Client Data Act (Government proposal 246/2022). Read more Transition periods and phasing of the Client Data Act.

Consent in the Kanta Services to sharing of information between social welfare and healthcare sectors
Disclosure of wellbeing information to social welfare and healthcare professionals based on consent given by the client.

This also applies to private providers of public-sector social welfare services.