Committee on Health and Welfare

How should healthcare be organised? What rights do you have as a patient? What rules should apply for trade in pharmaceutical products? Matters relating to health and medical care are the responsibility of the Committee on Health and Welfare. Care of children, young people, people with disability and the elderly are also the responsibility of the Committee.

Ongoing business

The Committee on Health and Welfare is working with the following proposals.

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The Committee on Health and Welfare

Works with matters relating to health, medical and social care.

Documents

Committee reports and statements, proposals considered by the Committee, order papers, records and annual reports.

Committee on Health and Welfare (in Swedish)

The parliamentary committees prepare decisions

The hub of the work of the Riksdag is the 15 parliamentary committees. This is where the members prepare the Riksdag’s decisions. When a committee has presented its proposal for a decision, all 349 members of the Riksdag adopt a position on the proposal. Each committee is made up of 17 members of the Riksdag. The committees are like a miniature Riksdag, which means that the composition of members in each committee reflects the balance of power in the Riksdag as a whole.

The parliamentary committees at work

The members of Committee on Health and Welfare