The actual performance is done by subsidiary health trusts (HF) that usually consist of one or more hospitals, with associate responsibilities.
The reform was credited to the Minister of Health, Tore Tønne (Labour) who only held office for one and a half years.
This has been criticised as being market fundamentalism,[2] as the system was intended to take all decisions entirely on economic grounds.
This was partially escalated by the initial decision to not have any politicians on the boards of the authorities and trusts, thus entirely removing control of the healthcare services from political bodies.
The Second cabinet Stoltenberg has partially changed this policy by electing politicians onto the boards of the authorities.