There isn’t a unique database with data stored in for the planning purpose, but to complete the physicians’ forecasting model, data are collected from a number of sources by a dedicated government agency contracted to produce workforce planning scenarios for the ministry.
- Sources used for planning purposes include government bodies such as the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the national register for health professionals working for individual patients (BIG-Registry) and the National Institute for Public and Environmental Health for forecasts on demographics and the development of need/demand for health care.
- Professional Associations such as the Royal Netherlands Society for Medicine keep detailed personal registers for each specialism and for each training program.
- Data are collected from training institutes on success rates/ attrition of training programs, duration of training programs, number of applicants per vacancy, male/ female ratio, age at entry, university of origin etc.
- Data on production can be drawn from the databases of the health insurance companies and the hospitals themselves.
The ACMMP does not keep a database of its own but uses databases and data analyses from all kinds of data collectors.
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