[Continuity and coordination in Danish health care]

Ensuring coordinated delivery of services is not a new challenge, but one that has grown in scope and complexity. Initially, coordination initiatives were often locally driven, but gradually national recommendations have developed and been converted into mandatory requirements. Coordination is often seen as a task in itself, and is delegated to coordination specialists. This is problematic, since it is the structural conditions created by management, especially division of labour and specialisation, which create the need for coordination to begin with.