Density of medical doctors (per 10,000 population) (2010-2018): 40.1
Density of nursing and midwifery personnel (per 10,000 population) (2010-2018): 103.2
Density of dentists (per 10,000 population) (2010-2019): 7.4
Density of pharmacists (per 10,000 population) (2010-2018): 5.2

Source: World health statistics 2020: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Remuneration of Doctors, Ratio to Average Wage (2017)
General Practitioners: NA
Specialists: 2.6

Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en.

Remuneration of Hospital Nurses, Ratio to Average Wage (2017): 1.1
Remuneration of Hospital Nurses, USD PPP (2017): $58,900

Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en.

“The number of doctors and nurses per population in Denmark is slightly higher than the EU average (see Section 4). However, only about 20 % of doctors are GPs, and Denmark faces shortages, particularly in rural and remote areas, including in the more remote islands and the northern part of the country (Figure 17).

“There are also large differences across municipalities in the country. In March 2018, more than 90 % of GPs in 12 municipalities were no longer accepting new patients, whereas this proportion was less 30 % in 12 other municipalities.

“More remote areas can use a range of measures to deal with the shortage of doctors. For instance, changes to the Health Act in 2013 made it possible for regions to outsource general medicine services to a private health care provider or to establish an intermediate regional primary health care clinic.

“In 2018, the government launched a new strategy to strengthen general practice throughout the country, accompanied by a series of 16 initiatives.
These include increasing the number of students choosing general practice as a specialty and improving the working conditions of GPs, retaining older GPs (notably by exempting them from the new re-accreditation requirement), promoting greater task-sharing with nurses and other competent staff in general practice, and reducing the administrative burden of patient records and developing better digital solutions to communicate with patients and other health care providers.”

Source: OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2019), Denmark: Country Health Profile 2019, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.

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