The public National Health Insurance affords all citizens who reside in Denmark the right to treatment from general practitioners and specialist doctors. You can also receive subsidy for medicine, dental assistance, physiotherapy, chiropody, chiropractic assistance and physiological assistance.
Everyone is entitled to a free national health medical card. The card is documented proof of your right to the benefits of health insurance. Therefore, you must have it with you when you should have treatment. A child receives a national health medical card when named or baptized.
If you need a blue EU medical card Borgerservice can assist with the issue of it.
You can find more information about Danish health services here:
http://www.workindenmark.dk/Find+information/Til+arbejdstagere/
Livet+i+Danmark/Sundhedsvaesen.aspx
Choosing a doctor
Upon enrolment in the National register at the Citizen Services Centre, you will be asked to choose a doctor, after which you will be sent a Danish Health Insurance card.
If you wish to change your doctor later on, this can be done by: self-service via the internet or applying at the Citizen Services Centre, a fee of DKK 160 is charged for changing your doctor.
Illness during temporary residence in Denmark
If you are temporarily residing in Denmark e.g. on holiday, you are entitled to free treatment in the public health care system if you become acutely ill. However, you will only receive such treatment as to enable you to travel home. Further treatment, other than the acute emergency treatment, should be paid for, possibly through a private travel health insurance.
If you are covered by a public health insurance scheme in another EEA country (i.e. EU countries together with Island, Norway and Liechtenstein) you have also during your stay in Denmark the right to acute treatment in the public health care system.
Special medical card for cross-border commuters
If you work in Denmark, but live in another EU/EEA country, you may be issued a special health card upon presenting a declaration by your employer and a copy of your pay slip. This card entitles you to medical treatment in Denmark under the same conditions as everyone else. However, this requires that you:
- work a minimum of nine hours per week, 18 hours per fortnight or 39 hours per month in Denmark
- pay supplementary pension (ATP)
- do not work in your country of residence.
You can apply for the issue of a special medical card at Borgerservice. Your children are not covered by your medical card and should therefore be treated in the country where you reside.
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