11. Can a homeless person be admitted to hospital

Regardless of whether a homeless person has registered with the national register or not, he or she enjoys the same rights as everyone else – including the right to be admitted to hospital, and to benefit from other public services. Acute hospitalisation may be conducted in the nearest hospital, but they may subsequently be transferred to another hospital in the region where they were last registered.
Even though homeless people are entitled to use public institutions the same way as everyone else, they often experience that they do not get the proper help – or get no help at all. On the contrary, they find them selves becoming socially more and more excluded. We have seen many examples of this.

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