This stability has been important in order to secure good collaboration. The physicians have two weeks of extra holiday per year, and every third year of service they are allowed four months of paid leave for continued - or postgraduate education. They have the other economic advantages which accrue to all physicians in Finnmark county with regard to taxes and repayment of loans.
Similar conditions apply to nurses and physiotherapists.
Eight weeks each year a medical student is outposted to the health centre, and other kinds of students are also posted there from time to time. Training therefore is part of the continuous tasks of the health care services in Loppa.