Public-private partnerships in the healthcare sector: limited policy guidelines, but active project development in Denmark

ABSTRACT

How and why has the formal policy development on PPPs in Denmark evolved? How and why do PPP projects develop in Danish healthcare sector? Despite limited policy guidelines and no PPP Act, a regional approach to PPPs has occurred in the healthcare sector. There are active projects in five hospital cases that use the PPP model. PPP projects in the Danish healthcare sector develop from a mixture of reasons, which include strategic interventions from finance institutions, change in specific formal rules on financing, and necessity for regional governments to find alternatives to public financing.

KEYWORDS:

• PPP policy development
• infrastructure
• healthcare sector
• Denmark

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• Health Expenditure
• I0 Health
• general
• K12 contract law
• R5 Regional Policy

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. Due to space limitations, this paper does not include direct referencing to all the legal and policy documents in the analysis every time they are used. Appendix A is a list with all the legal documents and empirical material that have been used in the analysis.

2. The tender in the last case (the Psychiatric hospital placed at the New University Hospital in Odense, OUH) is not yet launched, i.e. no information about the procurement procedure is available.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Innovation Fund Denmark.