Record electricity prices and new digital healthcare service

Thursday 10 November brings record-high electricity prices, while at the same time the healthcare system is launching a new online service for adults experiencing psychological distress. In Middelfart, a majority on the municipal council will seek to attract more families with children, and in Odense a nursery has been expanded with 50 new places.

New online service to be an alternative to AI chatbots

The Danish healthcare system is now launching the service 'Bedre Trivsel', which is intended to be an alternative to AI chatbots. Many Danes use chatbots to help with their mental state, according to a report from Center for Digital Psykiatri. The service can be found at sundhed.dk.

A digital project manager at Center for Digital Psykiatri says the goal is to make it easier for adults to seek help and receive high-quality help from the public healthcare system when they begin to experience mental distress. DR Nyheder Fyn

Chemo can take place at home on the sofa

A 30-year-old woman receiving treatment for acute leukemia at Odense University Hospital has been able to receive large parts of her treatment in her own home. She is connected to her chemo at the hospital, where doctors and nurses check that everything is as it should be, and then she can go home with her medicine in a bag. She is part of a trend in which more patients are being treated entirely or partly at home.

She herself says that it gives her enormous freedom. DR Nyheder Fyn

Thursday will be a record-breaking expensive day for electricity

The price of electricity peaks between 17:00 and 18:00, when the price per kWh reaches 5.55 kroner. The price rises to over 5 kroner as early as the morning. Although the price will not be quite as high as on Monday, it is still above the average for the year.

According to a press release from Eltjek24, Tuesday's electricity prices are so high that we have to go all the way back to 12 December 2024 to beat them, and the average price has now been more than twice as high as the average for the whole of the previous month for the second day in a row. TV 2 Fyn TV 2 Fyn

Middelfart wants to attract more families with children

A majority on Middelfart Municipality's council has decided to focus on settlement, so that there will be a better balance in the municipality. In particular, they want to be better at attracting young families, the municipality states in a press release. The council is the municipality's elected assembly.

Therefore, the council wants a digital overview map of existing and potential housing areas in the municipality to be prepared. This should translate into concrete housing projects such as affordable homes, senior housing and co-housing communities. The hope is that it will encourage people without children to move into smaller homes and thereby make more family-friendly homes available. TV 2 Fyn

Flexible jobs in supermarkets make room for everyone

At Spar in Vissenbjerg, an employee has been employed in a flexjob for 13 years. A flexjob is a job with reduced hours and special conditions, and the employee works 16 hours a week and performs exactly the same tasks as everyone else. He has a range of different diagnoses, but does not feel any different at work.

The shopkeeper says that the employee is cheerful, happy and hardworking, and good with both customers and the other staff. According to VIVE, the Danish National Centre for Research on Welfare, only 48 percent of people with cognitive disabilities had a job in 2024. A researcher in labour market inclusion of people with cognitive disabilities at Københavns Professionshøjskole points out that there is a great deal of equality and close collegiality in the country's supermarkets. TV 2 Fyn TV 2 Fyn

OB fights for a place in the Top 6

OB remain sixth in the Superliga after 14 rounds, but following the defeat to Viborg, the race for a Top 6 place has become genuinely tight. The Funen club has 17 points and is just one point behind AC Horsens in seventh place. With eight rounds remaining, an intense battle for a place in the championship play-off is therefore ahead. TV 2 Fyn

In brief

• The Næsbyhovedgård nursery in Odense has received 1,000 square metres of new construction costing 35.2 million kroner, approved by Odense City Council in 2023, and it has created 50 new places. TV 2 Fyn
• Enhedslisten will ask Odense City Council on 11 November to establish a permanent youth council to strengthen young people’s influence on the municipality’s development. TV 2 Fyn
• At the NG Nordic company in Nyborg, production has been halted on all incineration lines following a leak over the weekend; foul odours may occur, but there is no risk. TV 2 Fyn
• A lane on Fynske Motorvej was blocked by lost cargo between Kildebjerg and exit 54 Vissenbjerg on Tuesday morning, and the cargo was removed at 08.28. TV 2 Fyn
• For Mortensaften, a celebrity chef is sharing advice on roasting a duck: 160 degrees for one hour, followed by 210 degrees for 40 minutes. TV 2 Fyn
• 3 iconic buildings on Funen have been called “an eye of hay”, and the story explains what happened to them. TV 2 Fyn
• Several places on Funen will see rain on Thursday morning, the cloud cover may break around midday, and temperatures will reach 7-8 degrees in the afternoon. TV 2 Fyn
• A Funen man has been sentenced in Germany to 5 years and 8 months for his role in a VAT fraud case involving nearly 1.5 billion kroner. TV 2 Fyn