Patient Focus ( no, Pasientfokus; PF) is a minor

political party in Norway This article lists political parties in Norway. Norway has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no party can easily gain a majority of the 169 legislative seats. Parties may cooperate to form coalition governments. H ...

. It was formed in April 2021, as a support movement for an expansion of the Alta Hospital in

Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...

. In the 2021 parliamentary election, it won one of Finnmark's five seats in the

Storting The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years ...

. The party's leader,

Irene Ojala Irene Ojala (born 8 October 1960) is a Norwegian politician of the party Patient Focus in Finnmark. Education She is a trained social planner and has a bachelor's degree in High North studies. Career She is the leader of the voluntary organi ...

, holds the seat. Although the party is a

single-issue party Single-issue politics involves political campaigning or political support based on one essential policy area or idea. Political expression One weakness of such an approach is that effective political parties are usually coalitions of factions ...

, it plans to utilize policies of direct democracy among the constituents it represents for its other policy positions.

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