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The Health Committee

The Health Committee focuses on health, sickness and prevention. Issues pertaining to healthcare policies and the Government’s attitude to these make their mark on the committee’s agenda.

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Members

Tasks and responsibilities

The committee addresses all types of topics within health, sickness and prevention, including hospitals, primary health care, patients’ rights, scrutiny of the healthcare system, treatment subsidies in general practice, pharmacies, medicines, health ethics and research, and substance abuse.

Its tasks and responsibilities can be subdivided into two primary areas:

handling of Bills and motions within the committee’s remit
ongoing parliamentary scrutiny of the administration carried out by the respective ministers of the government’s health policies.

Parliamentary scrutiny of the government's health policies is often the Health Committee’s primary activity. Parliamentary scrutiny is exercised through the committee members’ tabling questions to the minister.

Specialist ministry

The Ministry of the Interior and Health is the committee’s specialist ministry.

The Ministry comprises a central department and many authorities, agencies and institutions. These are the Danish Health Authority, Statens Serum Institut, the Danish Medicines Agency, the Patient Safety Authority, the Agency for Patient Complaints, the Health Data Agency, the Danish National Genome Center, the Danish Council on Ethics and the National Committee on Health Research Ethics.

Organizations

Many organizations, associations and members of the public, etc. are interested in following the work of the committee and influencing legislation within its remit. There is for example a large number of patient groups, user and next-of-kin organizations, handicap organizations, etc.

Organizations, businesses and members of the public are welcome to contact or make an appointment for an audience with the Health Committee if they wish to notify the committee of a topic within its remit.

Study trips

Visits and study trips in Denmark and abroad are a source of knowledge and inspiration for members of the Health Committee. The purposes of such visits/trips is to ensure that committee members gain particular insight into an area of interest.

The members can engage in a dialogue with the players in the health sector, for example, the health authorities in foreign countries, experts and foreign parliaments with a view to learning more about specific challenges and solutions relevant to health policies.

The committee also arranges short visits in Denmark, e.g. to the regional authorities, to gather knowledge and inspiration with regard to current activities within the healthcare policy field.