Hospitals starting to regain surgery capacity, healthcare authority says
3 years, 11 months ago

Hospitals starting to regain surgery capacity, healthcare authority says

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands indicate that they have a little more capacity to perform surgeries, the Dutch healthcare authority NZa said on Wednesday. This week surgery capacity is at 54 percent of usual, compared to around 50 percent last week, NOS reports. The number patients GPs referred to hospitals and independent clinics last week was at 76 percent of what the NZa would have expected without the pandemic. On Tuesday, public health institute RIVM reported fewer than six thousand new coronavirus infections for the fourth straight day.

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Third of Dutch hospitals unable to provide any scheduled care
3 years ago

Third of Dutch hospitals unable to provide any scheduled care

NL Times  

The current coronavirus wave continues to put pressure on the healthcare system in the Netherlands. Over a third of the 74 Dutch hospitals can no longer provide any scheduled care, like hip- or knee surgeries. That is more than double compared to the ten hospitals that couldn't offer planned care last week, the Dutch healthcare authority NZa said on Tuesday. …

Backlog in surgeries vastly overestimated, hospitals & experts say
3 years, 3 months ago

Backlog in surgeries vastly overestimated, hospitals & experts say

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The Dutch healthcare authority NZa estimated that between 170,000 and 210,000 surgeries need to be caught up after regular healthcare was postponed during the coronavirus pandemic. "A lot of care was not provided, but you cannot expect that all that care will have to be made up," health economics professor Xander Koolman said to the broadcaster. Peter van der Meer, …

Hospitals facing backlog of up to 210,000 surgeries
3 years, 3 months ago

Hospitals facing backlog of up to 210,000 surgeries

NL Times  

Dutch hospitals and clinics are expected to catch up on between 170,000 and 210,000 surgeries as a result of the coronavirus crisis. According to a spokesperson, it involves about 11 to 14 percent of the operations that normally take place in a year. Since the crisis erupted in March last year, there were between 340,000 and 380,000 fewer surgeries than …

Pressure on healthcare system decreasing, but still high: Dutch Health Authority
3 years, 6 months ago

Pressure on healthcare system decreasing, but still high: Dutch Health Authority

NL Times  

The pressure on regular hospital care as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is slowly decreasing but remains high, the Dutch healthcare authority stated in their weekly report. Critically important plannable care such as cancer treatments could not be fully provided in 25 hospitals last week, down from 26 mentioned in the last report. The estimated number of missed referrals …

Regular care finally back to normal after Covid standstill
4 years, 3 months ago

Regular care finally back to normal after Covid standstill

NL Times  

Regular healthcare is finally back to pre-coronavirus levels, the Dutch healthcare authority NZa said on Friday. But once the number of Covid-19 related ICU patients started to stabilize and decrease, regular healthcare slowly started up again, with most hospitals staring to expand their care provisions in late April and early May. The number of referrals to specialist care and mental …

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