Waiting times in hospital or for an operation; there is almost no bigger problem in Dutch healthcare.
That is why people have been putting their heads together for years to find a possible solution. Unfortunately, the waiting times are still not getting shorter and with the increasing aging of the population things are not getting any better in the Netherlands. The next generation will be short of about 450,000 people in healthcare.
Unused operating rooms
Why are the waiting times so long? For a treatment or surgery you have to wait seven weeks in one hospital, while in another hospital there is room within three weeks. The hospital that confronts the patient with a long waiting time will not, however, advise quickly to knock on the door of the other hospital. In this way, waiting times are piling up, while operating rooms in other hospitals are not fully utilized become.
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Waiting time mediation
Without doing anything about this, the waiting times in healthcare become even longer. But there is a solution:waiting time mediation. It works as follows:health insurer Menzis makes an inventory of when and where operating rooms are available and responds immediately. In this way, the capacity of the hospitals is used more efficiently and patients are helped sooner.
According to health insurer Menzis, this approach leads to immediate results with about 42 days gain † Menzis has recently started offering this free waiting time mediation to everyone; so also to non-customers †
Knowing more? www.menzis.nl.
