Site Gives Mental Health Patients Insight into Inside Treatment

Patients, but also applicants such as general practitioners, can check the website, including the waiting times by health care provider and the amount of reimbursement for a treatment. The purpose of this site is that people seeking therapy get more information and advice and that mental health care is more transparent, according to the initiators.

Research shows that waiting times for people with autism, trauma or personality disorders and in people with a combination of mild intellectual disability and from a mental illness much too long. "The website reinforces people's search for care and provides them with information on waiting times and offers per practitioner, so that they can better engage with their sponsor, for example," says the secretary. Paul Blokhuis Health State about the new website.

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport is also one of the partnership partners. Blokhuis: "It is very appropriate if a person in a mental emergency needs to wait months to be treated.A long wait means that problems accumulate; jobs, debts, relationship problems. "According to the initiators, patients can now often find themselves in the" jungle of information sites on mental health care. "