About Danish Patients

Danish Patients is an umbrella organization for 102 patients and relatives associations in Denmark, representing a total of 900.000 individual members.

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Danish Patients is a political organization with an executive committee representing each member association. The committee elect a management board consisting of six members and a chairman. The management board work in close cooperation with the secretariat.

Our mission

Danish Patients strives to ensure the best possible conditions for patients and relatives in the Danish health care system and is safeguarding patients’ and relatives' interests. Danish Patients co-operates with authorities, research institutions and various health care organizations to create more patient-centered health care services.

The vision of Danish Patients is to contribute to a patient-centered health care system of high quality. We aim to achieve this by putting patient involvement on the political agenda and developing evidence-based policies to provide decision-makers with a solid knowledge base for making patient-focused decisions.

Danish Patients is involved in a number of health policy issues. Among those are a focus on user involvement, quality improvement and quality measurement, securing the rights of relatives, improving patient safety and continuity of care.

Knowledge Center for User Involvement (ViBIS)

The Danish Knowledge Center for User Involvement in Health Care (ViBIS) was established by Danish Patients in 2011 with the aim of developing a knowledge base for the involvement of patients and their relatives in the Danish health care system.

The specific knowledge patients and their relatives have about their condition, medical history and life circumstances is valuable for the development of health care services and institutions, which considers patients’ needs and preferences. There is substantial evidence that patient involvement can improve the quality of care, patient safety and patients’ knowledge and understanding of their own health and the treatment they receive.

ViBIS is working to gather, share and develop international knowledge about methods and tools to facilitate user involvement, and to make this knowledge available to health professionals, managers and decision-makers in the Danish health care system.

Want to know more?

If you want to know more about Danish Patients, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

You can reach us via e-mail: info@danskepatienter.dk or phone (+45) 33 41 47 60.