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The yellow health insurance card

Denmark has an extensive public health- and health insurance system offering free consultation and treatment at a local GP, out-of-hours medical services, and public hospitals. Examinations and treatments are free.

You are covered by the Danish health insurance system if you work and reside legally in Denmark. In connection with your entry registration, you will be allocated a GP of your own choice, and you will receive a national health insurance card, colloquially called “the yellow health insurance card”. In addition to your personal details, the health insurance card also contains the name of your GP.

 

 

As a rule, your GP is responsible for treating you if you need medical help and refers you to specialist doctors or a hospital, if necessary.

The GP, who is often also called the family doctor, has special rules for appointments, telephone hours etc. Outside normal working hours an automatic answering machine will inform you about contact to the A & E doctor, (accident and emergency ward).

Dial 112 in the case of emergencies or illness.

Children are covered by the health insurance scheme together with their mother and father until they have reached the age of 15. Subsequently, they get their own health insurance card and are entitled to choose their own GP.

When you see a doctor, specialist doctors, or receive treatment for instance at the hospital, or in other places where you undergo treatment, you must bring your yellow health insurance card. You must also bring the yellow health insurance card if you are to see a dentist or a physiotherapist, where treatments are partly covered by public payment.

 

Sundhedshus Ringkøbing - Foto: Region Midtjylland

 

The health insurance card can also be used as proof of identity in other connections. For example many libraries, including the libraries of the Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, use the health insurance card as a library card.

For more information about the Danish health system, click HERE.

Including among others your options of interpreter assistance.

Charlotte and Ian

 
Danish/English couple:

Wish of living the good life

”Above all, we just wanted to be together and live the good life. We love being together” says the Danish/English couple Charlotte and Ian Coles who have settled down in an idyllic old farm house at Kloster, halfway between the Ringkøbing Fjord and the Stadil Fjord and close to the town of Ringkøbing.

It is not surprising that the couple had a wish of the good life in peaceful surroundings with lots of nature. Ian was a Major in the British Army, which meant the couple had moved around military bases in England and Germany for years. Ian had also been deployed close to the world’s war zones, leaving Charlotte alone and suffering months of deprivation during their first year in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

They bought the old farmhouse overlooking the Stadil Fjord in 2013, and Charlotte moved in full-time, while Ian could only come home as work allowed. But now the good life has really started as Ian retired this summer.

Ian is 48 years old and he has just landed a job with Vestas - the wind turbine manufacturer – as a Project Training Leader. 

Charlotte and Ian - Read the full story here

 

Iwona and Jarek

 
Polish family:

Nature and good conditions for the children are crucial

It is first and foremost the good conditions for the children and the clean and beautiful nature that Iwona and Jarek emphasize when expressing why they have chosen to settle in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality in Denmark. In the past two years Iwona and Jarek have been living in the village of Finderup together with their joint child Diego and Jarek’s son Manuel and his daughter Karolina.

”The child-care facilities here are simply so good. They do so much for the development of children. For instance, they are allowed to cook and do woodwork when they can handle a knife– even though it may be a little dangerous. Besides, they also spend a lot of time in nature. In all sorts of weather. It is so healthy for them”, says Iwona who is also really happy with the schools.

”However, the best thing is that you exist to live here – which means that you don’t just constantly work, but you work in order to also live in your spare time”, says Iwona, and Jarek agrees. That was the very reason why he came to Denmark to work, since - as a self-employed motor mechanic with his own construction firm - he just worked and worked without earning sufficient to live on. On top of that he did not have any spare time whatsoever.

 

Iwona og Jarek - Read the full story here