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Proposal: Parliament is urged to change the rules for transporting deceased patients home

Official title (in Danish): Forslag til folket­ings­beslut­ning om ret til hjemtransport af afdøde patienter fra hospital til bopælskommune

Parliamentary resolution · B 43 (2026-27) · Sundheds- og Kirkeministeriet

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In short

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  • Proposed by: Dan­marks­de­mokraterne (6 members, first named: Kim Edberg Andersen)
  • What is proposed: The proposal calls on the Danish Parliament to urge the Minister for Health to change the rules for transporting deceased patients home.
  • Who would be affected: The proposal concerns deceased patients who are in a hospital in a different region from the one where they lived.
  • When: The proposal has not been adopted yet. A proposal for a parliamentary resolution is not an act and does not change the rules by itself. If the Danish Parliament adopts it, it is usually a call on the government to act.

Written by AI from verbatim quotes from the source and checked by code and AI. Dates, tables and the fact box are calculated by fixed rules. Unofficial translation. Always read the original.

What the proposal says:

  • The Danish Parliament urges the Minister for Health to change the rules for transporting deceased patients home.
  • The region of residence must in all cases arrange the transport home to the nearest hospital.
  • This must apply when a deceased patient is in a hospital in a different region from the one where the deceased lived.

Sources and original

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The case at the Danish Parliament (ft.dk)

Source: the Official Report of the Danish Parliament (Folketingstidende) and ft.dk

Translated from Danish · The Danish version and the original source apply.

Summary by the Danish Parliament (in Danish)

Forslaget går ud på at ændre reglerne for hjemtransport af afdøde patienter, så bopælsregionen i alle tilfælde skal sørge for hjemtransporten til nærmeste hospital, når en afdød patient befinder sig på et hospital beliggende i en anden region end den, hvor afdøde boede. Be­slut­nings­forsla­get er med enkelte ændringer i bemærkningerne en genfremsættelse af beslutningsforslag nr. B 108, Folketingsåret 2025-26, 1. samling.

Source: Folketinget (ft.dk). Reproduced unchanged.

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  1. Introduced · 30 October 2026
    Status in the Danish Parliament: Fremsat
    Folketingets Åbne Data – sagstrin: fremsættelse
  2. 1st reading
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  3. Adopted or rejected
    Awaiting the Danish Parliament