Overview
The register contains since 2007 information (year, month and municipality) on all persons who receive health care for which the municipality is responsible for. From 2019 and onwards, there is also information on interventions classified according to the Swedish Classification of Health Care Interventions (KVÅ) and performed by licensed healthcare professionals but only if the municipality is the care provider.
The register is a health data register and is regulated in the Act (1998:543) on health data registers and the regulation specific to the register (2006:94) on registers with the National Board of Health and Welfare of interventions within the municipal health and medical care and the National Board of Health and Welfare's regulations (HSLF-FS 2017:67) on the obligation to provide information to the register of efforts within the municipal health and medical care. It regulates what information may be in the register as well as the obligation for the municipalities to provide information.