Patients' Experiences with the Health Reform Free Choice of Provider Treatment Reform, 2020

"Patients' Experiences with the Health Reform Free Choice of Provider Treatment Reform, 2020" is a qualitative sub-study of the national evaluation of free choice of provider treatment reform (FBV). The data consists of qualitative interviews with patients, health personnel, as well as patient advisers at Helsenorge's service "Select Treatment Place" with the intention of gathering preliminary experiences with the reform. In particular, the interviews focused on patients' experience of freedom of choice, whether they perceived variations in practice / treatment options or prioritization of patients between different treatment sites of different actors (public, private with tender agreement and private with HELFO approval), and obstacles in implementation and use of the reform.