Minister of Social Affairs and Health
The Minister of Social Affairs and Health Hanna Sarkkinen deals with the following matters:
- health insurance (daily allowances and reimbursements)
- parenthood allowances
- sickness allowances
- reimbursements for medicines
- reimbursements for travel expenses
- health insurance reimbursements
- reimbursements for organising occupational healthcare
- employer’s funds
- unemployment security
- rehabilitation organised by Social Insurance Institution Kela
- pension security
- housing allowance for pensioners
- employment accident, motor liability, patient, life and non-life insurances
- insurance market
- general housing allowance
- maternity grants
- conscript’s allowance
- child benefits
- child home care and private care allowances
- pharmaceutical service
- production, wholesale and retail sale of medicines
- compulsory stockpiling
- medicine reimbursement system
- disability benefits
- labour protection
- Funding Centre for Social Welfare and Health Organisations STEA as well as Veikkaus Oy and its proceeds
- preparedness coordination
Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services
The Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services Krista Kiuru deals with the following matters:
- social welfare
- child welfare
- social welfare and services for persons with disabilities, including interpreter services
- care for alcohol and drug abusers
- services for older persons
- preventive social policy
- health services
- patient safety
- publicly funded pharmacotherapy under the Health Care Act and related pharmaceutical service
- prevention of communicable diseases
- national vaccination programme and vaccine procurement
- free-of-charge treatments under the Communicable Diseases Act and the Client Fees Act
- public health
- mental health
- rehabilitation
- health promotion
- environmental healthcare
- alcohol, drug and tobacco policy
- gambling-related harm
- health protection
- home and leisure accidents
- domestic violence and violence against women
- occupational healthcare, excl. reimbursements
- social assistance
- maternity and child health clinics
- school and student healthcare, school welfare services
- family and parenting support, family social work
- healthcare and social services for families
- sexual and reproductive health
- state reform schools
- wellbeing, inclusion promotion and social exclusion of children and young people
- front veterans’ issues
- farmers’ holiday and stand-in scheme
- central government transfers to local government
Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Equality Thomas BlomqvistLink to an external website is responsible for equality and non-discrimination matters.
Assistants to the Minister
Secretary
Päivi Saarimaa, tel. +358 (0)2951 63535
State Secretary
Juho Orjala, p. 02951 63424
Secretary: Susanna Miettinen, tel. +358 (0)2951 63045
Special Advisers
Jiri Sironen, tel. +358 (0)2951 63410
Secretary: Susanna Miettinen, tel. +358 (0)2951 63045
- international and EU affairs, pension security and private insurance, as well as communications.
Petra Malin, tel. +358 (0)2951 63508
Secretary: Susanna Miettinen, tel. +358 (0)2951 63045
- pharmaceutical services, family benefits, Funding Centre for Social Welfare and Health Organisations STEA, and Veikkaus proceeds.
Mikko Aarnio, tel. +358 (0)295 163 709
Secretary: Eevi Tynkkynen, tel. +358 (0)2951 63589
- social security reform, unemployment security, housing allowance, health insurance, occupational safety and health, capacity and ability to work and wellbeing at work
Assistants to the Minister
Secretary
Maria Vanhanen, tel. +358 2951 63525
State Secretary
Eila Mäkipää, tel. +358 2951 63632 (phone calls only)
Secretary: Riikka Mononen, tel. +358 2951 63531
Special Advisers
Jenny Suominen, tel. +358 2951 63387 (phone calls only)
Secretary: Minna Westerholm, tel. +358 2951 63336
- communications and media relations, healthcare system, health and social services reform, maximum waiting times for access to care, and matters covered by the Ministerial Working Group on Coordinating COVID-19 Response
Otto Köngäs, tel. +358 2951 63109 (phone calls only)
Secretary: Noora Manni, tel. +358 2951 63534
- issues involving alcohol and drugs, mental health, and services for older people and people with disabilities and children and young people
Petteri Nurmi, tel. +358 2951 63603 (phone calls only)
Secretary: Minna Westerholm, tel. +358 2951 63336
- social assistance, international affairs, and rehabilitation