Hospital centralization and performance in Denmark —Ten years on

Denmark implemented a major reform of the administrative and political structure in 2007 [1,2,3,32,41]. At that time, the country had three administrative levels – the state, county and municipal – each with the authority to levy taxes. The background for the reform was that the administrative structure was seen as being composed of too many small units at both the municipal and county levels to be able to provide services of a satisfactory quality. In p articular, it was a cause for concern that hospitals with a small volume of surgical patients were not able to provide surgery of a high quality due to limited surgeon experience [35].
Source: Health Policy - Category: Health Management Authors: Source Type: research