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28.3.2025 | Nödcentralsverkets instruktion för behandling av uppdrag inom akutvården förnyades i slutet av november 2023. Reformen syns i mängden uppdrag och i prioritetsfördelningen inom akutvården.

28.1.2025 | Teaching children how to use the emergency number correctly is a safety action. It is important to talk to children about identifying emergencies and encourage them to report an emergency.

23.7.2024 | Congestion in health care and social services has recently been in the news frequently, and the issue is also affecting emergency and prehospital care. Non-urgent tasks are also increasingly assigned to prehospital emergency care services, and various multi-professional approaches have been developed around Finland to handle these assignments.

3.12.2024 | Anniina Takala, the ERC Operator of the Year, will celebrate the Finnish Independence Day at the Presidential Palace. She feels that the invitation honours the whole profession.

1.8.2024 | The guidelines for handling tasks in the Emergency Response Centre Agency’s emergency medical services were revised at the end of November 2023. The change is reflected in the number of tasks assigned to emergency medical care and in the priority distribution.

3.1.2025 | While technology keeps evolving, emergency response centre services will continue to be provided first and foremost by humans to humans. This requires social interaction skills and the self-awareness to identify your reactions and limit stress.

3.4.2025 | Taito Vainio started his second five-year term as the Director General of the Emergency Response Centre Agency in early March. In the coming years, his work will be characterised by the challenges arising from the changes in the operating environment.

11.2.2025 | In 2024, the Emergency Response Centre Agency received an average of 7,600 emergency calls every day. Of these calls, 1,600 should not have been made to the emergency response centre. Roughly one half of the calls were passed on to authorities while the other half were handled by the emergency response centre operator through guidance and advice. The average time in which an emergency call was picked up was seven seconds.

11.3.2025 | The growth in the foreign-language population is reflected in the number of interpreted emergency calls. The demand for Ukrainian interpretation, for example, has increased significantly over the past few years.

3.9.2024 | 112 Suomi -appen får en programuppdatering den 3 september. I uppdateringen får mobilappen en ny widget-egenskap. Funktionerna kring hur varningsmeddelanden visas har också förbättrats.

13.3.2025 | The Emergency Response Centre Agency’s financial statements for 2024 are complete. The service level of emergency response centre (ERC) operations remained good, even though we were not able to meet all our performance targets. During 2024, absences due to illness decreased and the work load was evened out. Customer confidence and satisfaction in ERC operations remained high.

26.5.2025 | The coming weekend will see young people deservedly celebrate the end of the school year and the start of the summer holiday. For the emergency line, the school closing weekend is usually busier than a normal summer weekend.

30.4.2025 | Each year, the unique Finnish model for producing ERC services attracts international guests to visit Finland in order to monitor daily operations at emergency response centres. Visitors want to emulate the model, which is cost efficient and makes it possible to dispatch help quickly.

28.3.2025 | The Emergency Response Centre Agency’s guidelines for handling prehospital emergency care tasks were revised at the end of November 2023. The change is reflected in the number of tasks assigned to prehospital emergency care and in their priority distribution.

23.6.2025 | Med tanke på hjälpen är den viktigaste saken i ett nödsamtal att man vet sin position för att hjälparna hittar fram så fort som möjligt. Tekniken och särskilt appen 112 Suomi är bra hjälpmedel för detta.

11.8.2025 | Nödcentralsverket förmedlar uppdrag också till social- och krisjouren. Antalet sådana uppdrag ökade med 4 procentenheter år 2024 jämfört med året innan och överskred antalet uppdrag till räddningsväsendet.

8.9.2025 | Enligt Trafikskyddets enkät upplever var fjärde finländare att de inte vet hur man ska agera på en olycksplats. Nödcentraloperatörens anvisningar kan rädda liv i en olyckssituation.

26.9.2025 | Nödcentralen förmedlar årligen över 2 240 uppdrag som gäller förlossning. Det är en unik upplevelse för nödcentraloperatören när det i den andra änden av telefonen hörs ljud av ett nytt liv.

14.1.2025 | The 112 Day is a nationwide campaign aimed at raising Finnish people’s awareness of the emergency number 112 and how to recognise emergencies. When it comes to 112 training, it is a good idea to consider the characteristic behaviour and understanding of the target group. For example, it is advisable to emphasise different things to children and young people than older people, immigrants and foreign nationals.

18.12.2025 | Nödcentralsverkets verksamhet och kommunikation får mycket bra betyg av intressegrupperna. Resultaten från en intressentundersökning som genomfördes hösten 2025 visar att myndigheten fungerar pålitligt, professionellt och effektivt även i krävande situationer.