News item | 6/30/2023 | 3:45 pm
Minister Helder (Long-term Care and Sport) is committed to having enough people for all the work in care and support in the future. This will only work if the training courses are good and efficient and less supervision capacity is required. With the investment of the National Growth Fund (NGF) in the Digital United Training Concepts for Healthcare (DUTCH) program, courses can be modernized with digital training and simulations. A total of 132 million will be made available, of which 48 million will be unconditional.
NGF
With the National Growth Fund, the government will invest €20 billion between 2021 and 2025 in projects that ensure long-term economic growth. Today, Minister Adriaansens (EZK) announced that the NGF is also investing in DUTCH. With the investment of the NGF, courses can be modernized with digital training and simulations. This offers students and healthcare professionals the opportunity to practice much more often and to learn better. An operating assistant will soon no longer be dependent solely on learning in the operating room for training, but can also learn the trade with the help of simulations.
It also means that more healthcare professionals can be trained more quickly, because less people who already work in healthcare need to be called upon for guidance. These are badly needed for the treatment and support of patients, so that waiting times for medical treatment can be reduced. The result is a more productive society and an increase in well-being.
The objectives of the proposal fit in seamlessly with the challenge of learning and working differently and scaling up innovations, as stated in the Integral Care Agreement (IZA) and the Future Labor Market Care and Welfare (TAZ) programme. In addition, this initiative will also stimulate the earning capacity of the Netherlands in the fast-growing markets of simulation education (EdTech) and simulation in healthcare (MedTech).
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48 million euros will be made available unconditionally for the first 2 years, so that there is no delay at the start. The remainder (84 million) has been conditionally made available. The final amount of the NGF subsidy to be awarded will be determined depending on the extent to which the conditions are met.
Read more about it here National Growth Fund.