Healthcare for UK nationals living in Denmark
How to get state healthcare if you live, work or study in Denmark.
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Most state healthcare is free in Denmark if you’re a resident and have a state health insurance card (‘yellow health card’).
UK nationals usually access the Danish healthcare system in one of these ways:
registering as a resident and getting a yellow health card
using a European Health Insurance Card (
EHIC) or UK Global Health Insurance Card (
GHIC) for temporary stays
registering a UK-issued S1 form with the Danish state healthcare system and getting a yellow health card
Efrieda, 3, with her uncle Laitchani Levson, 69, who has elephantiasis in Malawi
Credit: Simon Townsley
Imagine if we found out that Covid-19 could be transmitted years later, by those who seemed to have recovered. Or that it almost always meant permanent disability or death if left untreated. Or that it targeted mainly children, or people who happened to live closer to rivers. And there’s another thing we don’t have to imagine: the pandemic hitting the poorest hardest.
Many of these things are already true about a group of diseases that has haunted the world for millennia, despite - in many cases - being preventable and treatable.
Healthcare for UK nationals living in the Netherlands
How to get healthcare if you live, work or study in the Netherlands.
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You must have health insurance cover to live in the Netherlands.
You have to pay for your medical care up to a fixed limit.
UK nationals usually access the Dutch healthcare system in one of these ways:
taking out insurance with a Dutch health insurance provider
using a European Health Insurance Card (
EHIC) or UK Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) for temporary stays
registering a UK-issued S1 form with the health insurance fund called ‘CZ’