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The Health and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ) will now evaluate the efforts of mental health facilities to reduce waiting times for patients. The Inspectorate has informed AVROTROS 'public program, Radar, of its tonight's show. The radar shows that waiting times in mental health facilities are increasing sharply, with all the consequences that entails. This while the branch organizations and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports have reached agreements last year to fight long delays.
Treeknormen
The parties then agreed that wait times in mental health care should be included in the "Treeknormen" by July 1, 2018. This is not the case, waiting times are still high.
Patients lose hope
In his evening show, Radar tells a patient that we can not help at the hour because of long delays. Similarly, psychiatrist Esther van Fenema sees more and more that patients lose hope of healing because they have to wait for treatment for so long
. make efforts to reduce waiting times for patients. The IGJ now takes into account wait times during its regular follow-up visits to the institutions. In addition to the efforts of the institutions, the IGJ also monitors how they communicate on waiting times. The radar shows that the IGJ institutions sometimes communicate bad weather. Marijke Booij, a psychiatrist in training, took a sample of waiting times from a fictitious patient. Nearly half of the 22 institutions exceeded the waiting period before admission or treatment of more than two weeks compared to the waiting times posted on the website. Health facilities mention other waiting times on websites
Radar tonight at 8:30 pm at AVROTROS on NPO 1
