THL's national projects
At THL, we implement the Sustainable Growth Programme for Finland through national RRP projects related to pillars 3 and 4 under the administrative branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. THL’s RRP projects create preconditions for regional projects to accelerate access to health care and improve the provision of preventive services and the introduction of digital solutions.
We will also strengthen the national social welfare and health care database and its impact through national development projects and support measures to boost employment.
National development projects create frameworks and shared structures for regional development. Development takes place in close cooperation in the field.
At the beginning of 2024, a total of 24 projects were ongoing at THL:
Pillar 3 projects
- Expanding the work ability programme
- Health examinations for the unemployed
- Research project on services, benefits and work participation for persons with partial work ability
- Expanding the IPS model
Pillar 4 projects
Investment 1 project
Support for implementation and breakthrough coaching
Investment 2 project
Multidisciplinary service concept for welfare and health promotion
Investment 3 projects
- Updating the cost-effectiveness indicators to version KUVA 2.0
- Improving the quality and coverage of data on access to treatment (ended on 31 December 2023)
- Kanta pilot on access to primary health care
- Use of social services and service system (data production in social welfare) (ended on 31 March 2024)
- Data production of health and social services’ financial, personnel and operational data (TAHTO) (ended on 31 January 2024)
- Improving the IT infrastructure needed to expand the national database (ended on 31 March 2024)
- Kanta data production of laboratory data (ended on 31 December 2023)
- Mechanism for assessing welfare economic impacts
- National development of recording and data quality
- National system for assessing evidence-based practices in health and well-being promotion
- National situational picture of the preparedness of health and social services
- Developing structural reporting in the field of social work
Investment 4 projects
- Shared mobile services
- Assessment and utilisation of mobile applications and digital services
- Support for self-management and self-care with Kanta PHR
- Digital services
- National service concept for welfare and health promotion and digital solutions
- Electronic booking
- Collecting customer feedback
- Digital customer and service guidance
- Data structures for monitoring treatment
- Steering and coordination of service chains
- Anticipating the population’s service needs through knowledge management solutions
