The Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman has published the second in a series of Overview Reports which review issues that are creating potential barriers to accessing healthcare. The report ‘The Removal of Patients from their General Practice Service’ provides an overview assessment of GP Practice decisions to remove patients from their Practice list alongside the guidance; legislation; and processes currently in place to inform these decisions.

L’Association des Ombudsmans et Médiateurs de la Francophonie (AOMF) s’est réunie le 19 janvier 2026 à Paris. Cette rencontre a permis de dresser le bilan des actions menées en 2025 et de définir les grandes orientations pour la période 2026-2027.

In 2025, the Parliamentary Ombudsman received a total of 7,321 complaints. This is the second largest number of complaints of all time. Case numbers rose in nearly all administrative branches. The largest numbers of complaints concerned social services, the administrative branch of the police and healthcare. The number of cases concerning foreign nationals more than tripled from the previous year. More than half of them concerned delays in processing at the Finnish Immigration Service.

As the theme for his monitoring visits to institutions for children in 2026, the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman will be looking into the social facilities that the municipalities use when there is a need for placing a child or young person in emergency care.

A new BC Ombudsperson report finds that too often key legal safeguards for involuntary patients under BC’s Mental Health Act are still not being applied across the province, despite improvement since the office’s 2019 Committed to Change investigation.

Most people calling the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction for income and disability assistance are still waiting far longer than the government’s own service standards allow, according to a new update from the BC Ombudsperson, which finds that the core problems identified eight years ago have not been resolved.

El informe anual de transparencia constata que en los últimos diez años se han producido avances, pero alerta de que la falta de recursos, así como el desequilibrio territorial, limitan su efectividad. El informe presenta diez propuestas para modificar la normativa. 

The Austrian Ombudsman Board and Stiftung Forum Verfassung are organizing a follow-up format to the lecture series "One in Five". This event will take place on 27 February 2026 and aims to raise awareness among students of social work as well as health and legal professions. Kindly click here to register for the event.