New executive order on the training of ambulance technicians

• What changes:

  • Many requirements for basic subjects, certificates and competences are now in the training scheme instead of the executive order.
  • The purpose of the training has been rewritten, and clinical training now takes place only at hospitals and in municipal nursing care (the AMK ambulance control centre, GP out-of-hours services, nursing homes, home care, and social and psychiatric institutions are no longer mentioned).
  • The subject committee must now inform the authorisation authority of significant changes to the training.
  • Previously it only said that the authority had to be informed.
  • The trained person must already be authorised under the Authorisation Act before this.
  • New is that it now states that authorisation is a prerequisite for calling oneself an ambulance technician.
• Who: The rules apply to pupils on the vocational training programme for ambulance technicians. Pupils who started the training before this will continue to follow the earlier rules.
• When: The executive order entered into force on 1 August 2026.

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