Mental health in Norway

         Norway’s mental health system appears to broadly offer good, appropriate care to the whole population, with Norway having committed significant efforts and resources to improvements across recent decades. These efforts – strengthening care in the community provided by municipalities, increasing specialist services, increasing resources going into the system and making mental health a policy priority – suggest that Norway is moving towards having a strong and comprehensive mental health system. In terms of collecting indicators of mental health care quality Norway is also making impressive progress in many respects.         However, shortcomings in Norway’s mental health system remain, and Norway can do more to secure high-quality mental health care for the whole population. There are opportunities for Norway to further strengthen data collection and to use data to help drive improvements in outcomes, to ensure that all mental disorders are appropriately treated, to make sure that responsibilities for service delivery amongst health authorities are clearly established and followed through, to promote better co-ordination, and to assure high quality of mental health care across the country.      