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Industry Report on General Hospitals 2010

Care for benefits is the second industry report of the Dutch Association of Hospitals (NVZ). It discusses developments in Dutch general hospitals during 2009. ‘Care for benefits’ comprises three sections:

Dutch hospital care from a European perspective: The Dutch use relatively little hospital care and spend relatively little on it, although they are very satisfied with curative care. This is revealed in a comparison with Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria, Spain and Switzerland. The Netherlands holds a special position within this group of countries at a number of levels.
The benefits of hospital care: Dutch hospitals provide excellent value for money. The value of eight treatments researched is a good EUR 22 billion. This is substantially higher than total care expenditure to hospitals and specialists of almost EUR 15 billion in 2007, the last year for which data on treatment has been available.
Finances and production in hospitals: Turnover in the A and B segments together grew by 7.4%. Most hospitals ended the year with better results than the previous year. Nine of the ten hospitals have a positive operating result, but results and solvency remain low. In 2009, for the first time, patients have been helped by means of ambulatory treatment rather than hospital admission. Admitted patients spent an average of 5.5 days in the hospital versus 6.5 days in 2005. Competition between hospitals is most acute in areas where a relatively large number of hospitals are close together.

The complete industry report (in Dutch) can be downloaded from the NVZ site via this link.

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