The Danish Patient Safety Authority

Summary

The Danish Patient Safety Authority authorise healthcare professionals and supervise Danish healthcare professionals and organisations. It offers health professional and legal advice to authorities and work with learning activities for the Danish healthcare sector.

Content

The Danish Patient Safety Authority undertakes various tasks as part of our mission to enhance patient safety. These tasks include:

• Supervising authorised health professionals and health organisations. 
• Providing guidance on communicable diseases, health conditions relevant to driving license issuance, and conducting investigations, among others.
• Granting registrations in 19 different healthcare professions to both Danish and foreign healthcare professionals.
• Issuing permissions for independent practice as a medical doctor, dentist, or chiropractor.
• Granting specialist registrations in 39 medical specialties and specialist registrations in the two dental specialties.
• Managing the central administration of the adverse event reporting system in the healthcare sector and utilizing knowledge from adverse events and patient compensation cases to prevent similar incidents.
• Offering advice on the entitlement to medical assistance in other countries based on Danish legislation, EU regulations, and other international agreements.