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Longyearbyen Hospital

The hospital in Longyearbyen is an emergency medical preparedness hospital. Unlike hospitals on the mainland, the hospital provides both primary and specialist healthcare services. During the day, Longyearbyen hospital serves as a medical office for the residents of Svalbard. Additionally, the hospital ensures healthcare services for all those travelling in and around the archipelago and the adjacent marine areas of the Barents Sea.

When you are staying in Svalbard, there are several things that operate differently than on the mainland. This also applies to healthcare services.

In Svalbard, you have only a limited healthcare offer.

We offer:

  • Doctor's appointment.
  • Emergency assistance.
  • Acute conditions that cannot be treated are transferred to UNN Tromsø or another relevant hospital on the mainland.
  • Only life-saving stabilisation surgery is offered before transfer to the mainland. This requires a surgeon to be available.
  • Dentist appointment. Additionally, a dental hygienist is present 2-4 times a year and an orthodontist 3-5 times a year.
  • Health centre. A midwife is responsible for the follow-up of pregnant women and children of school age. A school nurse follows up on schoolchildren.
  • Physiotherapy.
  • Standard X-rays.
  • Plastering for fractures that do not require surgical intervention.

The hospital cannot issue all types of health certificates (e.g. diving certificate, polar bear guard, guide), but assists with certain job-related certificates, such as a driving licence.

Longyearbyen Hospital has fewer services than other Norwegian hospitals

Please pay particular attention to the following:

  • No psychologist.
  • No delivery room.
  • No CT or MRI.
  • Limited capacity for medical investigations (we have similar services to what you can receive from a general practitioner/emergency care on the mainland).
  • No planned surgeries.
  • Transfer of emergency patients to the mainland by air ambulance depends on weather conditions and available flights.

Norske statsborgere:

Er automatisk medlem av Folketrygden og har fulle rettigheter i velferdssystemet. 

  • Betaler ordinær egenandel. Oversikt over egenandeler finner du på helsenorge.no
  • Har ordinære frikortrettigheter. (Oppnådd frikort hos HELFO gjelder også på Svalbard.)
  • Har ordinære rettigheter via Pasientreiser: Reise kost, og losji dekkes etter statens satser.
  • Har rett til henvisning til fastlandet for helsetjenester som ikke tilbys på Svalbard. 

Ikke-norske statsborgere med norsk arbeidsgiver:

  • Betaler ordinær egenandel som nevnt ovenfor.
  • Har ordinære rettigheter via Pasientreiser som nevnt ovenfor. 

Turister og ikke-norske statsborgere uten norsk arbeidsgiver. 

Må betale for konsultasjonen/tjenesten i sin helhet. (Dette gjelder f.eks. selvstendig næringsdrivende fastboende uten norsk pass.)


NB! Vær oppmerksom på at Svalbard er utenfor Schengen noe som kan innebære at europeisk reiseforsikring ikke dekker utgiftene på samme nivå som på fastlands-Norge. 

Man defineres som fastboende på Svalbard når man er innmeldt i folkeregisteret på Svalbard med planlagt opphold lenger enn seks måneder. 

Man ansees som besøkende dersom oppholdet er kortere enn seks måneder.

Longyearbyen Hospital as of 2023 has 22 full-time employees, of which four are doctors and six are specialist nurses. There are also physiotherapists/manual therapists, public health nurses, midwives and a dentist at the hospital. The optician is present twice a year.

The hospital has six beds, including one intensive care bed with ventilator facilities and one bed for isolation in case of infectious disease. The hospital only hospitalises patients in case of acute incidents/emergency care.

The hospital has round-the-clock emergency preparedness with an on-call team consisting of a doctor, nurse anaesthetist and surgical nurse. 

Contact

Phone

Emergency number

113

Appointment booking

76 17 33 00

Monday to Friday from 9 am to 3 pm (break 12 pm to 1 pm)

Health Centre for 0-6 Years

90 99 29 52
  • Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Saturday - Sunday CLOSED

Midwife and public health nurse are at the health centre.

School health services (6-20 year)

48 06 36 94
  • Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Saturday - Sunday CLOSED

School health services (6-20 year)

48 06 69 46
  • Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Saturday - Sunday CLOSED

Dentist Svalbard

90 99 69 28

Physiotherapist / manual therapist

90 99 71 09

Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 15:00

After-Hours Care

76 17 33 00
  • Monday - Sunday 3:00 PM - 9:00 AM

Postal adress Svalbard

Postboks 314

9171 Longyearbyen

E-mail

post@unn.no

Directions

The hospital is located between the Cultural Centre and hotel Radisson Blu (in the heart of Longyearbyen). The hospital is easy accessible  on foot or by car. There are parking spaces outside the hospital.

Map

General information

Det er parkeringsplass på sykehusets vestside mot hovedveien, men man kan også benytte Kulturhusets parkeringsplass med innkjøring fra Hilmar Rekstens vei. Det er gratis parkering.

Kart (Google).