The Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services is the head of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services

Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services is a Norwegian government ministry in charge of health policy, public health, health care services and health legislation in Norway....

. The position has existed since 1 January 2002, when the Ministry of Health was created. The name was changed to the Ministry of Health and Care Services on 1 January 2006.

From 1992 to 31 December 2001, there was a Minister of Health within the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.

List of Norwegian Ministers of Health and Care Services

Name	From	To	Party
Dagfinn Høybråten Dagfinn Høybråten Dagfinn Høybråten , is a Norwegian politician and the former leader of the Christian Democratic Party. He was the director of the National Insurance Administration from 1997 to 2004, but barely attended to the position because he was a government minister in Bondevik's First Cabinet from 1997 to...	2002	2004	Christian Democratic
Ansgar Gabrielsen Ansgar Gabrielsen Ansgar Gabrielsen was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Mandal. He is an insurance agent by education and worked in this profession before entering politics. He is also a trained officer in the Norwegian Defence Force. He was a member of Lindesnes municipal council...	2004	2005	Conservative Conservative Party of Norway The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...
In 2004, it had been renamed the Ministry of Health and Care Services.
Sylvia Brustad Sylvia Brustad Sylvia Brustad is a former Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party.Brustad graduated from high school in 1983, and attended the media courses at the folk high school in Ringsaker until 1985...	2005	2008	Labour Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
Bjarne Håkon Hanssen Bjarne Håkon Hanssen Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, has been the Norwegian Minister of Health since 20 June 2008 as part of the second cabinet Stoltenberg. On October 8, 2009 Hansen announced that he would step down as a minister when Stoltenberg's new cabinet is put together...	2008	2009	Labour Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen Anne-Grete Hjelle Strøm-Erichsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 2005....	2009	present	Labour Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....