Guidelines for pharmacy technicians qualified outside Denmark who want to work at a Danish pharmacy or hospital pharmacy
Guidelines for pharmacy technicians who are nationals of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who have completed training as a pharmacy technician in one of these countries and want to work at a Danish pharmacy or hospital pharmacy
Translation into Danish or English
Any additional requirements for obtaining permission
Electronic processing of information and dissemination
Contact the Danish Medicines Agency
These guidelines describe the rules that apply to people who have completed training as a pharmacy technician in an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who want to work as a pharmacy technician at a Danish pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
Required documentation
The documentation must be submitted as certified copies or in the original form.
All copies of original documents must be certified by an embassy, the police, notary public or the authority that issued the document with a stamp and signature on each copy to confirm that the copy is a true copy of the original document. Private individuals cannot make certified copies.
If you want to get your documents back, please contact us.
We may ask you to present the original documents. If you send the original documents, we recommend that you send the application by registered post.
Translation into Danish or English
Documents in English, Norwegian or Swedish do not have to be translated.
You may enclose a translation into Danish or English of the documents listed below with your application. You can also wait until we have processed your application and assessed which documents need to be translated. You should, however, expect an extended assessment time if you do not enclose translated documents.
A translation into Danish or English must be made by one of the following:
- The educational institution or authority that issued the document or
- An authorised translator. The translator’s name and stamp must appear clearly from the translation. If the stamp is not in Danish or English, it must be translated by an authorised translator. The translator must use a band, seal or the like to attach the translated document to the document in the original language. In some cases, we may accept that other translators translate the documents. Documents in English, Norwegian or Swedish do not have to be translated.
Knowledge of languages
Persons, whose training as a pharmacy technician outside Denmark has been assessed as eligible to be treated as the training that Danish pharmacy technicians receive, must have a knowledge of languages necessary for practising the profession as a pharmacy technician at a Danish pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
Executive order no. 922 of 26 June 2015 on pharmacies and hospital pharmacies’ operations provides that pharmacy staff must carefully and conscientiously process and examine prescriptions and other medicine order forms and dispense, sell and provide information about medicinal products. This implies that members of pharmacy staff must be sufficiently skilled in Danish in order to communicate reasonably with the pharmacy customers, medical staff and authorities, etc. The hiring pharmacist is responsible for ensuring that the pharmacy staff meet the provisions of the above-mentioned executive order.
Application
Please enclose the following documents:
- Documentation of nationality in an EU/EEA country, name, date of birth (e.g. in the form of copies of the relevant pages of your passport).
- Diploma.
- Overview of study programme from the educational institution. As regards the theoretical training, subjects/courses must be stated, including the number of hours of training or full-year equivalent. As regards the practical training, information about the relevant training pharmacies must be provided as well as the duration of the individual training periods.
- Study programme – course descriptions.
- Documentation, if any, of work experience.
- Curriculum vitae.
Please send the documents to
There is not a special application form for this purpose. Please send the documents to:
Danish Medicines Agency
Pharmacies & Reimbursement
Axel Heides Gade 1
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Email: Send an email
Any additional requirements for obtaining permission
Additional requirements could be a passed test or a trial period of your own choice. The requirement of a test or a trial period will be made if we assess that there are significant differences between your overall qualifications and a Danish pharmacy technician education programme.
Our assessment will be based on a statement from Pharmakon A/S, the Danish College of Pharmacy Practice.
If your foreign qualifications are not considered equivalent to the Danish pharmacy technician training, you can contact Pharmakon to get advice on how to apply for admission to the Danish pharmacy technician education programme.
Pharmakon
Milnersvej 42
DK-3400 Hillerød
www.pharmakon.dk
Electronic processing of information and dissemination
The information and documentation relating to your pharmacy technician training will be processed electronically by the Danish Medicines Agency, which for example implies that we will record relevant personal data in our electronic records.
If necessary, the information and documentation will be disclosed to professional experts and other authorities in order to assess your qualifications.
Pursuant to the Danish Act on Processing of Personal Data, an applicant or notifier has the possibility to request access to the information being processed about you, just as you have the right to object to the processing of the information and the right to request corrections, blocking or erasure of information that is incorrect, misleading or in some other way has been processed contrary to the provisions of the law.
The Danish Medicines Agency will treat the submitted information and documents as confidential.
Complaints
If you want to complain about the Danish Medicines Agency’s decision or the processing of your application or notification, please send your complaint to the Danish Ministry of Health. The Ministry will then assess whether the applicable procedural rules have been observed and will assess the legal framework on which the Danish Medicines Agency has based its decision. The Danish Ministry of Health cannot assess the health professional aspects on which the decision is based.
Danish Ministry of Health
Holbergsgade 6
DK-1057 Copenhagen K
Email: Send an email
www.sum.dk
Contact the Danish Medicines Agency
Danish Medicines Agency
Pharmacies & Reimbursement
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