while danish residents currently experience low unmet need for medical care this skills mix provides opportunities to expand the scope of practice of nurses to better respond to growing and changing requirements many nurses work with more advanced tasks under delegation from a physician in a legal framework established to improve the scope of practice for nurses this and other possible extensions in scope of practice will require revision of curricula or investments in more postgraduate education and training for nurses in denmark as scope exists in the danish primary care payment schedule for nurses to perform some tasks traditionally done by physicians oecd a