How does the Dutch Health Facilities Act work? Marinus Verweij MD Director Netherlands Board for Hospital Facilities

Overview The Dutch health care system in a nutshell Financing health investment Tasks of the NBHF Stages of approval Focus on the hospital: planning and building Conclusion

Some aspects of the Dutch health care sector social health insurance funds and private hospitals are private trusts hospitals are not for profit organisations ownership of assets belongs to the hospital

Ownership health infrastructure - EU

Role of the government in health care responsibility laid down in our constitution macro-economic constraints: costs of health care is financed by social security and therefore limited by national and EU budget constraints financial overview of health care delivered and costs presented to the Dutch parliament each year

What does this mean for planning and building? Funds for construction are also limited not the investment sum itself is important but the effect on costs –replacement investments: only capital costs rise –investment with expanding capacity: not only capital costs but also an increase in operating costs

Financing investments no government subsidies health care institutions do not have much own capital depreciation and interest costs are accepted in the tariffs therefore cost differs between hospitals

Financing investments capital costs through the life cycle

The Netherlands Board for Hospital Facilities ‘What’s in a name?’: the Act covers more than just hospitals Governors of the NBHF are independent, appointed by the Minister of Health Field parties are represented in committees of the board 120 Employees

Tasks of the NBHF licensing of construction plans: health facilities submit their own plans developing guidelines –for planning capacity: e.g. ageing, IC capacity, geographical distribution of emergency care –building guidelines, with basic quality requirements and best practice centre of expertise –technological innovation: e.g. operating theatres –building costs and procurement

Stages of approval procedure the business case (mandatory) the programme of requirements (optional) the architectural design (mandatory) the final specifications for the granting of the license (optional) In recent years a reduction of bureaucracy

General planning guidelines Hospitals: 2.8 beds per 1000 Nursing homes: 5% of 75 years and older % of total population Psychiatric hospitals: maximum 2.17 per 1000 for institutional care, minimum 1.4 per 1000 Homes for the mentally handicapped: between 1.4 and 1.8 places per 1000 To be used with ‘intelligence’!!

Focus on hospitals 70’s and 80’s: two or three hospitals in most cities mergers brought about more economies of scale 90’s mergers between hospitals resulted in very large hospitals ministry wants no more mergers, small hospitals still in difficult situation, private day care clinics allowed

The size of a new hospital is determined by the future capacity of beds the specific functions ‘beds’ is a pragmatic parameter, outpatient services have become much more important

beds per 1000 inhabitants beds per 1000 inhabitants beds per 1000 inhabitants beds per 1000 inhabitants In the future 2.0 beds per 1000 inhabitants The bed/population ratio

Which beds are included - general ward - special care - paediatric care - obstetric care - day care Not included - psychiatric care - rehabilitation - Long term stay

How to apply the bed/population ratio? future catchment area inhabitants bed/population ratio 2,8 beds per 1000 inhabitants future capacity of beds 560 beds

Size and cost of a new hospital numbernormfloorcosts total of bedsper bedareaper m² costs m² m²€ €117 mln

What is included in the 95 m²/bed patient accommodation treatment and diagnostics outpatient facilities (para)medical support management and training civil and technical services office accommodation for staff

Special hospital functions Not included in the standard 95 m² per bed transplantation (kidney, heart/lung, liver, bone- marrow, pancreas) coronary and open-heart surgery complex neurosurgery radiotherapy neonatal intensive care genetic services and counselling in vitro fertilisation

Capacity guidelines radiology  bucky room investigations  fluoroscopy room investigations  sonography room investigations  mammography room investigations  angiography room investigations  CT- room investigations  MRI-room investigations

Other capacity guidelines  operating room1.200 procedures  general treatment room3.500 treatments  GE-scopy/bronchoscopy2.500 treatments  urology room3.000 treatments

Conclusion: aim of the H F Act matching supply and demand of healthcare infrastructure well-balanced geographical distribution adequate quality of accommodation at a reasonable cost