National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care

National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care (Nasjonalt kompetansesenter for legevaktmedisin, NKLM) is a Norwegian institution established by the Ministry of Health and Care Services in 2004.

It is a research, advisory and monitoring body for the Norwegian emergency primary health care (out-of-hours) services (legevakt) and assault centres.

[2] It has established several registers that monitor the activity of the out-of-hours services in Norway.

The centre provides advice and professional support to central and local administrators and participates in graduate and postgraduate education.

National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care center is responsible for two clinical decision support tools; a telephone counseling software for nurses ("Telefonråd") and a web- and smartphone-based handbook of emergency primary health care ("Legevakthåndboken").