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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. His ...
. 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 bas ...
. 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 organiz ...
, 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 faction ...
, it plans to utilize policies of
direct democracy Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the Election#Electorate, electorate decides on policy initiatives without legislator, elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently establishe ...
among the constituents it represents for its other policy positions.


See also

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Hospital to Alta Hospital to Alta ( no, Sykehus til Alta) was a Norwegian political party which was active for the 2013 parliamentary election. The party's sole issue was the desire to relocate Hammerfest Hospital, the sole hospital in western Finnmark, from H ...
, a similar party which ran in the 2013 Norwegian election *
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, (often known as Independent Community And Health Concern and abbreviated as ICHC) is a political party based in Kidderminster, United Kingdom. The party was founded in 2000, having grown ou ...
, a similar party in Kidderminster, England


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Political parties in Norway Single-issue political parties Political parties established in 2021 2021 establishments in Norway Regionalist parties Political parties of minorities in Norway {{Norway-party-stub