Social Welfare and Health Care Department
The Social Welfare and Health Care Department steers and supervises the organisation of services by wellbeing services counties and the activities of professionals and operational units in social welfare and health care services. The department manages matters related to the licences of national service providers and the steering of licence administration in private social welfare and health care. The department handles and resolves supervision issues concerning social welfare and health care professionals and organisations, among other things. The department carries out systematic supervision in accordance with supervision programmes.
The Social welfare and health care department supervises the implementation of the essential requirements of customer and patient information systems and handles reports of significant deviations in customer and patient information systems.
The department is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and developing the preparation of the social and health care supervision program.
The department’s task is to ensure that the secure operating environments of the secondary use of social welfare and health data meet data protection and information security requirements.
The department's duties also include national supervision tasks in early childhood education and care, especially in matters of fundamental or broad scope.
In addition, the supervisory board for social welfare and health care professionals operates in connection with the department. The supervisory board's tasks include deciding on matters relating to the limitation and revocation of the right to practice a profession, the withdrawal of the right to practice a profession, the prohibition of the use of a professional title, and the resumption of the aforementioned.
The Director of the department is Helena Mönttinen.
Department units and their tasks:
Licences unit, Head of Unit Eine Oinas-Soudunsaari
- Steering related to licensing administration of operators and the Regional State Administrative Agency
- Private social welfare and health care licenses when activities cover more than one Regional State Administrative Agency
- Private social welfare and health care dispensary licences for round-the-clock service housing
- Maintenance and development of the social welfare and health care service providers’ register Valveri.
Supervision of Services 1 unit, Head of Unit Kirsti Tolonen
- Steering and supervision of the organisation of services by wellbeing services counties
- Supervision of the activities of public and private social welfare and health care units
- Planned supervision in accordance with supervision programmes
- Supervision of the Finnish Defence Forces' health care, and prisoner health care
- National supervision of early childhood education and care
Supervision of Services 2 unit, Head of Unit Tarja Sainio
- Steering and supervision of the organisation of services by wellbeing services counties
- Supervision of the activities of public and private social welfare and health care units and social welfare and health care professionals, especially on the basis of complaints
- Supervision of secure operating environments for the secondary use of social welfare and health data
- Supervising the implementation of essential requirements in the client and patient information systems of social welfare and health care, and processing deviation reports
- Statements to authorities
Supervision of Professionals 1 unit, Head of Unit Mervi Koivuniemi
- Steering and supervision of social welfare and health care professionals
- Statements to authorities
Supervision of Professionals 2 unit, Head of Unit Kirsi Liukkonen
- Steering and supervision of social welfare and health care professionals
- Statements to authorities
- Organising the activities of the supervisory board for social welfare and health care professionals