Minister Fleur Agema (Zorg, PVV) has not yet found an alternative to the cutback of 165 million euros on the continuing education and training of nurses. Agema announced this on Friday afternoon.
However, a solution has been found for the coming months. Agema gets money from a game at the Ministry of Finance, which has been reserved for money to compensate for future wage and inflation increases.
Agema’s solution is against the wishes of the House of Representatives. He had called for her to come up with an alternative to the cut at the latest at the end of January. Agema himself called that difficult during debates, because she “doesn’t want to make new groups angry”. She also called it “not an easy exercise.”
However, a solution has been found for the coming months: Agema gets money from a game from the Ministry of Finance
After the Council of Ministers, that Deputy Prime Minister Agema for the first time for the absence of the sick Prime Minister for the first time, she said “first to want to weigh all the co-and-setbacks” within her budget. “Even though the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has a large budget, it is difficult to find money.”
She also referred to the report of the Van Ark committee last Thursday, in which the booked billions of cuts on youth care are called ‘undesirable and unfeasible’. They should even be reversed. That would hit a big gap in the Budget of VWS.
Mistake
The controversial cut on nurses stemes from agreements at the end of last year, between coalition parties PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB and the opposition parties CDA, ChristenUnie, JA21 and SGP on the education budget. Of the intended cut of 1.9 billion euros in education, around 700 million was deleted. This prevented the Senate from stopping the budget.
The deleted cutbacks would partly be paid with money from the care budget of Agema: 150 million euros on the remuneration of independent medical specialists who do not work as an employee, 165 million euros at the additional training of care staff, including nurses.
The unrest was great under the latter group. The politicians themselves were also not happy. Agema said that the cutback had raid and called it an “accident”, the coalition parties spoke about a “mistake.”
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