Referrals, hospital waiting times and your right to choose a hospital for your treatment

Referral and your right to choose a hospital for your treatment

As a patient, it is your right to be referred to Filadelfia Epilepsy Hospital, regardless of where you live in Denmark. You can ask your GP (General Practitioner) to refer you to examination and treatment at Filadelfia Epilepsy Hospital. You are also entitled to getting a referral from neurological hospital departments, children’s departments and private medical specialists in neurology or paediactrics. The patient’s right to choose a hospital for his or her treatment gives you direct access to Filadelfia’s highly specialised medical expertise.

Treatment at Filadelfia Epilepsy Hospital is free – your region carries the expenses of your examinations and treatment. If you have questions regarding referrals, please contact Filadelfia’s medical preexamination team on telephone number: +45 58 27 10 65.

A maximum of 4 weeks’ waiting (preexamination).

Filadelfia’s patient programmes require that you have a preexamination in our outpatient clinic. The waiting time for the preexamination is max. 4 weeks. It may be necessary to carry out more or other examinations or tests after the preexamination. It may also be necessary for you to be admitted to the hospital for some of these examinations or tests.

Waiting time for preexamination:

Preexamination children – approximately 2 weeks

Preexamination adults – approximately 1 week

Waiting time for admission to the hospital:

Waiting times for admission depend on the given programme that you are going to be admitted to. The waiting times below are to be understood as general guidelines – variations may occur in individual cases:

Admission children – from 2 - 11 weeks

Admission adults – from 0 - 7 weeks

Waiting times can vary a lot

Watiting times for your admission depend on the patient programme to which you are being admitted.

You can get more information by contacting the department to which you will be admitted. Find contact information for departments on the contact page