The National Office for Rehabilitation and Social Affairs (NORSA)

The National Office for Rehabilitation and Social Affairs (NORSA) - and its legal predecessors look back on a history of over 100 years. Even at the beginning, in the previous century setting up and developing various insurance systems required insurers to employ a variety of highly qualified experts in their respective field in order to be able to provide professional services and objectively assess health impairments. Medical experts were also employed for similar business interests.The organisation has undergone a major overhaul over the past decade. These changes not only affected the name of the institution and its scope of tasks, but equally implied major restructuring at an organisational, procedural, methodological and training level. Expert activities undertaken in the field of social and employment rehabilitation were added to medical expert tasks.In Government Decree No. 2013/2007, the Government designated the immediate predecessor of the Office, i.e., the National Rehabilitation and Social Institute (ORSZI), with the task of acting as a social expert body independent to service providers in the case of assessing caring needs before using services provided in old age homes, home care and home care assisted with a medical alert system. Assessing caring needs was removed from the scope of authority of ORSZI from 17 August 2012 after the amendment of Act III of 1993.