Ventefri

Healthcare queues put treatment, plans, and everyday life on hold. Ventefri makes planned treatment in the EEA easier to understand, easier to carry through, and less uncertain.

Why Ventefri exists Offer for patients with endometriosis

The problem is not only illness. It is also the time you lose while waiting.

Many people in healthcare queues are not just managing symptoms. They are also postponing work, training, travel, family life, and plans they want to move forward with.

For some people, treatment in another EEA country is a real option. Still, many stop before they get that far because the option feels unclear, expensive, or hard to trust.

215,652

Waiting in specialist healthcare

All sectors, Norway, January 2026

76.8 days

Average wait in somatic care

Nationwide, 2024

Sources: FHI/NPR og Norwegian Directorate of Health.

Ventefri exists to reduce unnecessary waiting.

Not by promising to fix the whole healthcare system, but by making an existing option more accessible to more people. For many, the blocker is not willingness, but uncertainty, cost, and bureaucracy.

Uncertainty

Where should you go, what has to happen first, and how does the regulation apply in practice?

Financial strain

Travel, accommodation, and treatment often have to be paid up front before reimbursement can be assessed.

Practical and bureaucratic work

You have to find a clinic, gather documents, understand the sequence, and submit the right attachments.

How Ventefri lowers the threshold

Ventefri does not replace the choice you need to make, but makes it easier to make an informed choice and move forward without being alone in the process.

Clear documentation

Checklists and templates make it easier to gather the right documentation the first time.

Clear process

You get a clearer view of what should happen first, what is missing, and what can wait.

Practical plan

Ventefri helps you think through clinic choice, travel timing, accommodation, and what it takes to carry the plan through.

What can you do now?

Today, Ventefri offers a pilot for patients with endometriosis. If that applies to you, you can read about the pilot and see whether the offer fits.

Current offer in brief

1
It is only for patients diagnosed with endometriosis
Ventefri aims to help thousands of patients, but to do this properly, we are starting small.
2
It costs nothing to join
Ventefri does not charge you, but you must pay upfront for treatment, travel, and accommodation. Only treatment costs are eligible, and Hjelpefri supports you in getting reimbursed by the state.
3
You get personal follow-up throughout
Ventefri's model is to offer tailored solutions by diagnosis. In the pilot, the support is tailored to you.

If you have another diagnosis, you can read more on the patient page while Ventefri expands the offering.

Read more about the pilot, or go to the patient page if you want to understand where this is heading.

Read about the pilot See the patient page