This report concerns the extent to which the Danish regions and the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health’s have ensured compliance with the maximum waiting time for cancer patients.
It is Rigsrevisionen’s assessment that the regions and the Ministry of the Interior and Health have failed to ensure that all cancer patients commence treatment in compliance with the rules on maximum waiting time. The regions have failed to ensure that all cancer patients are provided with treatment at another hospital, when the maximum waiting time have been exceeded, and the regions have failed to report all instances of non-compliance with the maximum waiting time to the Danish Health Authority. The ministry has not had solid information about the regions’ compliance with the rules and the available treatment resources. As a result, cancer patients risk waiting for treatment for longer than is necessary.
Overall, Rigsrevisionen is highly dissatisfied with the inability of the regions and the Ministry of the Interior and Health to uphold the rights of the patients.
Rigsrevisionen took the intiative to do the study in April 2023.
Read the introduction and conclusion (PDF)