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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

3.4.2025 | 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.

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.

3.12.2024 | 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.

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.

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.

6.6.2025 | Examensfesten för den tvåspråkiga nödcentraloperatörkursen 44 firades på Räddningsinstitutet fredagen den 6 juni 2025. Slutförandet av kursen stärker Nödcentralsverkets svenskspråkiga servicenivå.

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.

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.

10.9.2024 | Thousands of emergency calls are made to the Emergency Response Centres every year involving cases of self-harm or attempted suicide. The purpose of the Suicide Prevention Day is to inform people that help is available and that it's safe to talk about suicide.

26.5.2025 | Under det kommande veckoslutet firar ungdomar välförtjänt att läsåret slutar och sommarlovet börjar. På nödlinjen syns skolavslutningshelgen vanligen genom större brådska än under ett vanligt sommarveckoslut.

9.6.2024 | The Emergency Response Centre Administration is participating in an EU project that improves the visibility of the missing children help system. A key theme of the project is teaching children how to correctly use the emergency number.

15.3.2024 | The Emergency Response Centre Agency’s financial statements for 2023 are complete. Last year, the number of employee absences due to illness fell, new ERC operators were recruited, and employee satisfaction increased.

7.8.2024 | Children are excellent emergency callers as they are honest; although you never want them to face an emergency. It is important, however, that children are taught the correct use of the emergency number, just as adults are.

3.12.2024 | Årets nödcentraloperatör Anniina Takala firar självständighetsdagen på Presidentens slott. Hon tycker att inbjudan är en hyllning till hela yrkeskåren.