From 1 March 2012 the Danish Medicines Agency will no longer exist as an independent agency.
As part of a larger cost-cutting and restructuring program, the Danish government has decided to merge the Danish Medicines Agency with the Danish National Board of Health. The effects of this merger and creation of a new health board of course remains to be seen, but it is stressed that the merger shall take place with respect for the professional core services that is currently provided by the two institutions.
Along with the new health board, another agency is established with responsibility for disease spread emergency preparedness and monitoring as well as for health documentation. This new agency gathers the present Danish State Serum Institute, Danish National e-Health and the documentation tasks of the Danish National Board of Health and the Danish Medicines Agency and Diagnosis Related Grouping (DRG) from the department of the Ministry of Health.
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