WILLEMSTAD.- “There are offices of General Practitioners who have many patients, this has a reason”, says Wallid Elhage. Elhage is the chairman of the board of the General Practitioners Association (CHV). He explained that the association is in discussions with the Minister of Health and also with SVB to come to a point in which, the GP’s can have other General Practitioners at their service. ‘This way they could guarantee the quality of care’. Elhage explained that not all GP’s want their own office. ‘There are also doctors who want to work “part time”, for example; in the morning hours only. To come at such a system, certain criteria must be required that are applicable to all, “Elhage explained. ‘To achieve this, we must work together with the Government.’
As it is known, on May 7th SVB sent a letter. In said letter, the Director of SVB Philip Martis said: “that both in the agreement concluded to come to payment system directed to the sector of care according to the agreement between the Government and CHV, as in the Law that regulates Basic Health Insurance, refers a point about the need to reach a maximum working pressure for GP’s.
According to Martis, in a vision document that CVH presented, this aspect is also mentioned. The document prepared during the period from 2015 to 2020 clearly states that the moment in which many patients are enrolled with the same GP, this hinders the continuity and access to medical care.
Based on this, now SVB has decided that it will apply this rule when paying GP’s for their services. GP’s will only receive payment for up to 2500 patients. For its part CHV does not agree with this.
