Title: Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
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- The Norwegian Board of Health (Statens
helsetilsyn) - Takes the authorisations/lisences in Norway
- The Norwegian Registration Authority for Health
Personell (Statens autorisasjonskontor for
helsepersonell - SAFH) - Gives the authorisations/lisences in Norway
- The National Board of Health and Welfare in
Denmark (Sundhedsstyrelsen)
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- Common objective
- PATIENT SECURITY
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- REGULATIONS TO REMEMBER
- Directive 2005/36/EU
- The Edinburgh Agreement 2005
- Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders -
Memorandum of Understanding (HPCB MoU) - The Portugal Agreement 2007
- The Nordic Agreement
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- PROACTIVE
- - WITHOUT BEEING ASKED
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- CCPS
- Certificate of Current Profesional Status
- Reactive on request
- Used in many European countries
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- BETTER ACCUMULATED LIST
- PROACTIVE WITHOUT BEEING ASKED
- ISSUED BY THE NORDIC COUNTRIES 3-4 TIMES A YEAR
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- EVEN BETTER CASE TO CASE INFORMATION
- PROACTIVE WITHOUT BEEING ASKED
- Norway, Sweden, England and Island
- not
- Finland and Denmark
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- A nurse with a foreign and Norwegian
authorisation from 1994 - Worked in ambulanse service in his home country
- February 2008 Confessed theft and abuse of
morfin and stesolid - Quitted the job, started drugtesting, could not
get work in the home country - Moved to Norway started in an emergency
department in May 2008 - The Norwegian employeer did not know about his
theft and abuse - Administrative reaction from the home country in
March 2009 - The Norwegian Board of Health was informed
through the accumulated list some time later - The Norwegian authorisation was revoked in July
2009 - RISK Worked almost one year in the emergency
department without employers knowledge of his
abuse and theft
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- COULD THIS BE AVOIDED?
- Yes, by a more proactive approach
- Case to case information exchange (sending the
decision immediately in March 2009, or - Contacting Norwegian authorities when they knew
about the job in Norway in May 2008, or - Immediately when the knew about the drug abuse
and theft, combined with the information that he
had a Norwegian lisence/authorisation in
February/March 2008