New Funding for the Year of Acute Mental Health Care Deferred

Along with the new standard of care, new funding for acute psychiatry is also expected to come into effect on January 1, 2019. This has been postponed for one year because health care providers and health insurers involved in the purchase process have been confronted with "differences in interpretation" regarding implementation and it is difficult to know exactly what will be the personal and financial consequences of the new standard of care.

Secretary of State Paul Blokhuis, disappointed, writes in a letter to the House of Representatives. He believes that acute care for people with mental illness and their availability needs to be improved. The registration of the standard of care – compiled for acute mental health care in the public registry of the National Institute of Health Care – was a condition of the new funding. This is now postponed until January 1, 2020, so that the parts that make up the standard of care can better define the budget and the staff available. However, in the coming year, we will work as much as possible according to the new standard of care, but with the current funding, writes Blokhuis.

At present, 17 mental health care actors are working on the development of 43 standards of care for mental health care. The first 35 standards were delivered to the Care Institute in June. Last year, the Care Institute defined a quality framework for the care of the elderly. The conditions of such a standard are binding. The minimum standards for staffing the Quality Framework for Care of the Elderly would involve an additional expense of $ 2 billion.

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