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Title: Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders


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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • 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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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • Common objective
  • PATIENT SECURITY

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • 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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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • PROACTIVE
  • - WITHOUT BEEING ASKED

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • REACTIVE
  • - ON REQUEST

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • CCPS
  • Certificate of Current Profesional Status
  • Reactive on request
  • Used in many European countries

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • WEAKNESS!

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • BETTER ACCUMULATED LIST
  • PROACTIVE WITHOUT BEEING ASKED
  • ISSUED BY THE NORDIC COUNTRIES 3-4 TIMES A YEAR

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • EVEN BETTER CASE TO CASE INFORMATION
  • PROACTIVE WITHOUT BEEING ASKED
  • Norway, Sweden, England and Island
  • not
  • Finland and Denmark

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • IS THIS ENOUGH?

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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • 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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Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders
  • 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
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