News item | 01-09-2022 | 07:00
As of today, healthcare providers can apply for subsidies to reduce local administrative burdens in healthcare. With the subsidy scheme, healthcare organizations themselves can get to work to reduce the regulatory burden in their own organisation. The subsidy is part of the follow-up programme [Ont]Arrange the care. With this program, Minister for Long-term Care and Sport Conny Helder wants to reduce administrative burdens so that care providers can spend more time on care and experience more job satisfaction.
Minister Conny Helder: “Healthcare providers have to deal with many rules. And not all rules are really necessary. With this subsidy scheme, healthcare providers themselves can work on simplifying or even removing unnecessary rules in their organization. Together we have built a paper tower of administrative burdens, now we have to tear it down together where possible, also locally. This provides care providers with more job satisfaction and more time for care.
Delete and simplify
Healthcare providers can apply for the subsidy for projects to simplify, redesign or delete rules. With the money from the subsidy, they can free up people and time to dedicate themselves to reducing administrative burdens. Good examples and lessons learned from these projects are made public and actively shared. By sharing these examples and lessons, other healthcare providers are encouraged to also start reducing the regulatory burden in their own organisation.
The first application round for the subsidy runs until 30 September 2022. Two more rounds will follow in 2023. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport is making a total of 9.5 million euros available for the subsidy scheme [Ont]control projects healthcare providers. The subsidy scheme is specifically intended for healthcare providers who provide healthcare under the Healthcare Insurance Act. However, the money can also be used for activities together with care providers who provide care under the Long-term Care Act, the Social Support Act or the Youth Act.
Follow-up approach [Ont]Arrange the Care
The subsidy scheme is part of the follow-up approach [Ont]Arrange the care. For the past four years, [Ont]Arrange the Care yielded the first positive results. A start has been made on reducing unnecessary or cumbersome rules in many workplaces. As a result, the experienced regulatory burden has decreased slightly for the first time in years. The ministry is satisfied with this result, but wants to go even further in its approach to reducing the burden. In order to further reduce the regulatory burden, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport is looking for close cooperation with partners from the healthcare sector. All parties involved; healthcare providers, healthcare offices, insurers, sector and professional associations, supervisors and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport have their part to contribute to this joint task.