Usually, “healthcare professional” is translated as “terveydenhuollon ammattilainen“; that term  I usually see in other translators’ work that I check or edit, and I have also used the same term.

However, in a Kela paper (Kela = the Finnish Social Security institution)  I happened to see I the term “terveydenhuollon ammattihenkilö“. Checking the Internet, the term “terveydenhuollon ammattihenkilö” is widely used: there is even a law called  “Laki terveydenhuollon ammattihenkilöstä”.  So, should we translators start translating “healtcare professional” as “terveydenhuollon ammattihenkilö”?