News item | 02-04-2025 | 14:33
Sharing more information about available beds and places helps to see where it is busy in acute care, or where a care provider is available. This way, healthcare professionals can spend their time as well as possible and there is a better understanding of the availability of appropriate follow -up care. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) signed an administrative agreement on this on 2 April with the Elderly and Home Care Industry Organization Actiz, the Dutch Association of Hospitals (NVZ) and other care parties. The agreement contributes to the government’s ambition to keep acute care accessible to the patient.
Minister Fleur Agema: “The reality is that in the coming years we need every place, every employee and every bed to maintain acute care in the Netherlands. I am happy that our care partners together make an effort to gain better understanding where there are patients to get good acute care.”
The agreement has also been signed by Ambulancezorg Nederland (AZN), Eterelijnszorg trade association, National Network Acute Care, the Dutch GGZ, Dutch Federation of the University Medical Centers (NFU) and Zorgverzekeraars Nederland (ZN). The organizations that represent care providers will be part of the Stichting National Care Coordination Foundation (LPZ) and manage the application thereof. In this LPZ app, information is already being shared as crowds at the emergency department and in birth care. With this agreement it is agreed to make this insight possible in ambulance care, general practitioner’s care, acute nursing & care and the acute mental health care.
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Acute care remains accessible
The agreements are an important basis for a better care offer and a better spread of patients by care providers. Good insight into the availability of beds and places helps healthcare providers to assign the next step at the right time. With the help of care coordination, we can optimally use scarce resources and specific knowledge, so that healthcare professionals can spend their time as well as possible. This creates a better distribution of care and there is also more job satisfaction.
Before more information about available space is shared in acute care, the organizations will first experiment with this. In this test they investigate how they can adjust data in such a way that everyone can use it and really contribute to improving the care process. If all information from the test is reliable and usable, it is also used afterwards. Automatic delivery is the starting point, so that additional administration burden is prevented.