Transcript Professions in healthcare in the Netherlands

Professions in healthcare
in the Netherlands
The Hague, 30 June 2008
Adriaan Duivesteijn,
RIBIZ/BIG-register
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
“Who is who”
• Eduction
- Ministries of education and health
• Registration
- Basis professions (8 professions)
- Recognition: Foreign Healthcare Qualification Committee
BIG-register = RIBIZ/ ministry of health
- Specialist registers (4 professions)
Professional organisations
• Supervision: Healthcare Inspectorate
• Disciplinary law
- Disciplinary Courts
• Professional bodies
Registration
The BIG-register
- Right to use the legally protected title
-> Practice profession autonomously
Register is not an instrument to select a
healthcare professional
Public information
• Restricted to
- Profession
- Registration number
If applicable
- Specialisation
- Conditions
- Discplinary measures
“For all eternity?”
Re-registration:
2009
Nurses, midwives and
psyhiotherapists
Website
- List of registrations removed
- disciplanary rules
- work address
Changes?
Adaption of BIG Act?
Disciplinary rules: distinction between Dutch
and foreign qualifications
More measures recorded in BIG-register?
More information?
www.ribiz.nl
Consult the BIG-register? Choose ‘Search in BIG-register’
• Search using ‘name’ and ‘date of birth’ -> public information
• Questions? Contact RIBIZ [email protected] or 0031 70 3406600
Questions?
[email protected]
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