Foreign healthcare professionals must have a medical licence to work in the Danish healthcare system. The report indicates that foreign healthcare professionals wait longer than necessary to be authorised to work in the Danish healthcare system – and longer than in Sweden and Norway – even though there is a shortage of labour in several sectors of the healthcare system.
The purpose of this report is to assess whether the Ministry of the Interior and Health is managing the authorisation process for foreign healthcare professionals in a satisfactory manner. The report answers the following questions:
- Is the Ministry of the Interior and Health ensuring that only foreign healthcare professionals possessing adequate qualifications are authorised?
- Is the Ministry of the Interior and Health ensuring that foreign healthcare professionals who have adequate qualifications are authorised as quickly as possible?
Rigsrevisionen assesses that the Ministry of the Interior and Health is not managing the authorisation process for foreign healthcare professionals in a satisfactory manner. The consequence is that foreign healthcare professionals have to wait longer than necessary to be authorised to work in the Danish healthcare system.
Rigsrevisionen initiated the study in September 2023 at the request of the Danish Public Accounts Committee.
Read the introduction and conclusion (PDF)