Many of the indicators that Norway is collecting at present are, though useful, primarily process indicators, or measures of service capacity, for example registration of diagnoses or staffing numbers. With other existing indicators, for example inpatient suicides, readmission rates or waiting times for access to services, Norway is making steps towards being able to assess quality of mental health care. However, the fact that psychiatric patients are often very vulnerable, and in a large proportion of instances held involuntarily, makes measuring performance and quality of care vital and more complex (Pincus et al.,