Choice of healthcare and service location

As a customer of public healthcare, you can choose your own primary healthcare treatment location (social welfare and healthcare centre) from anywhere in Finland. Changing the social welfare and healthcare centre requires that you make a written notification to both your current and future social welfare and healthcare centre. A separate notification must be made for each family member.

Responsibility for your treatment will be transferred to the new social welfare and healthcare centre no later than three weeks after the notification has been received. You can change the social welfare and healthcare centre no more than once a year.

Apply for a change of care and service location using the form below. The form is printed in duplicate, filled out and returned to both the new and the current healthcare and service location.