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Pharmacies can hand out another medicine when there is a shortage
Official title (in Danish): Bekendtgørelse om recepter og dosisdispensering af lægemidler
In short
Reading time: 1 min- What changes:
- The Danish Medicines Agency can issue a substitution protocol when there are, or soon may be, supply problems for a medicine.
- Pharmacies can then hand out a different medicine, including one from a different substitution group, but only if the conditions in the protocol are met, the doctor has not banned substitution, the pharmacy does not have the prescribed medicine or one in the same group in stock, and the medicine user gives consent.
- Some transitional rules for midwives and nurses and for veterinarians' prescriptions no longer apply.
- When: The executive order entered into force on 15 September 2026.
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Source: Retsinformation.dk
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- Issued · 10 September 2026
- Published in the Danish Law Gazette (Lovtidende) · 12 September 2026
- In force · 15 September 2026