The strike was ended in August 2021 when the Danish Parliament imposed a pay deal on the nurses.
[6] The new proposed agreement was subsequently rejected by the nurses, with two-thirds of DSR membership voting against it in June, setting the stage for strike action to begin.
[10] On 26 August, after negotiations with opposition parties, the Danish government announced that it would be able to secure a 75% in a parliamentary vote to impose a pay deal on the nurses, the required supermajority in the law for such a move.
Health Minister Magnus Heunicke stated that the government would be introducing a bill to break the strike the next day, imposing the terms that the nurses had rejected earlier in the year, stating that "for each week the conflict is allowed to continue, the backlog of treatments is extended by 10 weeks."
At that point, the Danish Health Authority estimated that 35 500 operations had had to be delayed due to the strike.