AS the coronavirus epidemic continues to claim thousands of lives, how are different countries around Europe plotting a route back to normality? Our journalists and contributors give their latest insights.
The government has reached agreement with health authorities on how to fulfil an election pledge to increase the number of nurses in the country’s public health system by 1,000.
Up to 2,000 women in Jutland and Funen may not have received the breast cancer screening they should have been given, escalating a scandal previously limited to a single hospital.
Denmark’s health minister Ellen Trane Nørby is to table a bill which would require regional health authorities to ensure Danish language competency when hiring foreign doctors.
The majority of people in Denmark are happy with the current system for public healthcare, although the government is currently considering a major restructuring.
Denmark’s current regional organisation of public health administration could be scrapped in an upcoming reform to the country’s national healthcare system.
Up to one in four workers in the health and social care sector said they had experienced sexual harassment in the course of their work, according to a survey.
Non-urgent operations such as knee and hip replacements could be severely affected if no deal is reached in an ongoing dispute between public sector authorities and trade unions.
Health care researcher Justin C. Matus, a visiting professor at the University of Southern Denmark, looks at the difference between the Danish and United States healthcare systems.
The conviction of a 78-year-old man who helped his 71-year-old wife die has sparked a new debate on active euthanasia and an overwhelming majority of Danes are in favour of it.
Expat blogger Melanie Haynes has had more recent experience with the Danish health system than she'd like but she says that nation's public hospitals and clinics give better service than private alternatives.
In the span of just over one week, a 12-year-old boy and a 33-year-old man died in the Copenhagen district of Amager. In both instances, emergency dispatchers ignored desperate pleas to send an ambulance.
All patients are entitled to receive a diagnosis within 30 days when medically possible, but a new report shows that only 65 percent are being diagnosed on time.
The government announced a new five billion kroner plan to improve the nation's healthcare system through better cancer treatment, early detection and the creation of new modern doctors' offices.
The government is preparing to invest one billion kroner into quicker diagnoses of cancer, but there are already concerns that the plan is not enough to combat Denmark's record-setting cancer rates.
By now everyone in the Copenhagen area has heard about the problems with the emergency phone line 1813, but it's a different story when those problems hit home. Freelance journalist Alex Forrest shares her experience with the new system after her son broke an arm.
Seven months after its rollout, the new 1813 emergency phone line is still falling massively short of its promised performance. "Regrettable," says a Region Hovedstaden spokesman.
