DATA COLLECTION IN THE NETHERLANDS

Main aspects:

• Data collected on current stock of HWF allow to know: number of active professionals; number of full-time equivalent; types of providers; where they work; their skills; the services they provide; workloads, including also gender and age;
• Workloads are not collected, as this is multi-interpretable in the Netherlands;
• The FTE is partly measured by asking the specialists themselves;
• The strength of this solution is good. The employed clinical specialists already account for 58% of the total population and the information retrieved is reliable. They are able to do comparisons between the earlier surveys amongst all clinical specialists and the data in this database;
• The remaining weakness is the lag time of two years for the data to become available. Another weakness is that the relation between reported FTE and actual hours worked is not determined.