The FSHS will serve students on weekdays during the Christmas holidays. FSHS’s digital and remote services will be available on all weekdays. Local services will also be well available.
If necessary, you will be directed from the assessment of the need for treatment to either a remote appointment or to a local appointment to another open service unit.
Local appointments in Turku, Pori and Rauma
If necessary, you will be directed from the assessment of the need for treatment to either a remote appointment or to a local appointment at another open service unit.
- The service units in Turku and the services for general and mental health at the service unit in Pori will be open on weekdays as usual.
- There will be no local appointments for oral health at the service unit in Pori Tue 23 Dec 2025.
- There will be no local appointments for general and mental health at the service unit in Rauma from Mon 22 Dec 2025 to Tue 23 Dec 2025.
Contact for assessment of the need for treatment
The need for treatment can be assessed on weekdays according to the normal opening hours. On normal weekdays, you can contact the FSHS using the service forms provided in the Self online service, via SelfChat or by calling our nationwide service numbers:
- SelfChat will be open on weekdays:
- for oral health questions Mon–Wed 8 am–3 pm, Thu 8 am–1 pm and Fri 8 am – 2 pm.
- for general and mental health questions Mon–Wed 8 am–3 pm, Thu 9 am–3 pm and Fri 9 am–2 pm.
- The service line for hearing-impaired customers on SelfChat will serve according to its opening hours.
- The nationwide telephone services will be available Mon–Thurs from 8 am to 3 pm and Fri from 8 am to 2 pm.
Please note the exceptions for eve days and public holidays mentioned on this page:
- Closed on Christmas from 24 Dec 2025 to 26 Dec 2025
- Shorter opening hours on New Year’s Eve 31 Dec 2025 and closed on New Year’s Day 1 Jan 2026
- Closed on Epiphany 6 Jan 2026
If there are any temporary interruptions in chat or phone service, we will provide information as needed via a separate notification banner on our website.
Exceptions to opening hours on holidays and eves
Christmas, 24 Dec 2025 to 26 Dec 2025
All our service units, SelfChat and our nationwide telephone services will be closed:
- on Christmas Eve, Wednesday 24 Dec 2025,
- on Christmas Day, Thursday 25 Dec 2025,
- and on the day after Christmas, Friday 26 Dec 2025.
New Year´s Eve 31 Dec 2025 and New Year´s Day 1 Jan 2026
- FSHS´s own service units will be open on New Year’s Eve, Wednesday 31 Dec 2025, from 8.00 am to 12:30 pm. The national phone services and the SelfChat lines will serve on New Year´s Eve from 8 am to 12 pm.
- All our service units, SelfChat and our nationwide telephone services will be closed on New Year’s Day, Thursday 1 Jan 2026.
Epiphany 6 Jan 2026
- All our service units, SelfChat and our nationwide telephone services will be closed on Epiphany, Tuesday 6 Jan 2026.