Link to policy actions: Belgium Planning measures and actions

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The permanent planning measures are:

  • Setting of quotas (at the Federal level):
    • Maximum number of new professionals in Health Insurance system per year;
    • Control access to specialty (physicians and dentists);
    • Control access to private practice (physiotherapists).
  • Control inflow with entrance exams for medical studies (at Communities level).

Other measures were adopted ad hoc:

  • Increasing attractiveness of profession with financial mechanisms/ rewards (= revalorizing salaries);
  • Organisation of medical care in group practices to increase attractiveness of profession;
  • 1733 pilot project (national phone number for after-duty periods with triage of calls) to improve the use of available human resources;
  • Special funds to stimulate the establishment of medical personnel in ‘under-served’ zones (Impulseofunds) consisting in financial incentives for young physicians who start a practice, and for all physicians who start a practice in under-served regions (tackling regional imbalances).

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