New health councils and fewer cooperation bodies
Official title (in Danish): Lov om ændring af lov om regioner og om nedlæggelse af amtskommunerne, Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd og Hovedstadens Sygehusfællesskab (regionsloven) og forskellige andre love (Ny regional forvaltningsmodel med sundhedsråd, afskaffelse af kontaktudvalg, sundhedsklynger, sundhedssamarbejdsudvalg, sundhedsaftaler i deres nuværende form, praksisplaner, kommunal medfinansiering på sundhedsområdet og nærhedsfinansiering samt konsekvensændringer i flere love som følge af sammenlægningen af Region Hovedstaden og Region Sjælland m.v.)
In short
Reading time: 1 min- What changes:
- The act establishes health councils in each region.
- The regional council sets up a number of health councils, each with its own geographically defined area, to handle the day-to-day management of part of the region's tasks in the areas of health, social affairs and special education.
- At the same time, among other things, contact committees, health clusters and health cooperation committees are abolished.
- Who: The act affects the regions and the municipalities.
- When: The Act entered into force on 1 July 2025. Some parts entered into force on 1 January 2026. Some parts entered into force on 1 January 2026. Some parts entered into force on 1 July 2026. Some parts will enter into force on 1 January 2027. Some parts will enter into force on 1 January 2027.
- Parts of the act apply from the grant year 2027.
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The case at the Danish Parliament (ft.dk)
Source: Retsinformation.dk
Translated from Danish · The Danish version and the original source apply.
Summary by the Danish Parliament (in Danish)
Forslaget udgør en del af implementeringen af »Aftale om sundhedsreform 2024« mellem regeringen (S, V og M), DD, SF, KF og RV af 15. november 2024. Formålet med forslaget er at fremme en enklere, mere gennemsigtig og mere lokalt forankret styring af sundhedsvæsenet. Med forslaget etableres en ny regional forvaltningsmodel. Der etableres i hver region sundhedsråd, der inden for geografisk afgrænsede områder skal varetage den umiddelbare forvaltning af sundheds-, social- og specialundervisningsområdet. Sundhedsrådene udgøres af medlemmer af regionsrådet og medlemmer af kommunalbestyrelsen i de kommuner, der hører under sundhedsrådet. En række eksisterende samarbejdsfora nedlægges, herunder kontaktudvalg, sundhedsklynger og sundhedssamarbejdsudvalg, og sundhedsaftalerne og praksisplanerne i deres nuværende form ophæves. Regionsrådene skal i tilknytning til hvert sundhedsråd nedsætte patient- og pårørendeudvalg. Den kommunale medfinansiering og nærhedsfinansieringen ophæves, og der indføres en overgangsordning, som økonomisk håndterer de byrdefordelingsmæssige konsekvenser for kommunerne. Det foreslås, at forslaget træder i kraft den 1. juli 2025. Forslaget skal ses i sammenlægning med L 213 om overgangsloven.
Source: Folketinget (ft.dk). Reproduced unchanged.
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- Introduced · 24 April 2025Status in the Danish Parliament: Fremsat
- Passed · 11 June 2025Status in the Danish Parliament: 3.beh./Vedtaget
- Stadfæstet · 20 June 2025Status in the Danish Parliament: Stadfæstet
- Partly entered into force · 1 July 2025Status in the Danish Parliament: Stadfæstet
- Partly entered into force · 1 January 2026Status in the Danish Parliament: Stadfæstet
- Partly entered into force · 1 July 2026Status in the Danish Parliament: Stadfæstet
- The rest enters into force · 1 January 2027In 58 days