DutchNews.nl,
Monday 01 September 2014
(NOS/ANP) |
The report
comes from an independent commission set up to investigate the way the NZa
works following revelations about the suicide of a whistleblower and other
scandals, the NRC and Nos television said on Monday.
The
commission says the NZa's main roles - drawing up rules to cover health service
treatment, and regulating hospitals and insurance companies - should be
separated to avoid potential conflicts.
The NZa is
not only responsible for deciding which drugs and treatment should be covered
by the mandatory health insurance, but for supervising the advance of the
private sector into the system.
Supervisory
board
The NZA
should also have a supervisory board and its two-man management board stretched
to three. The two board members resigned in June after the NRC published a
string of revelations about their expenses and hospitality agreements with
insurance companies and drugs companies.
The
organisation's personnel policy needs a complete overhaul as does the
relationship between it and the health ministry, the report says.
Health
ministry officials are also criticised for interfering in the NZa's work,
which, the report says, has given rise to claims of 'unjustified interference'.
'There
should be no interference from the minister in individual cases,' the report
states.
Whistleblower
The report
is particularly scathing about the treatment meted out to whistleblower Arthur
Gotlieb, who had compiled an extensive dossier on privacy and other failures at
the NZa.
It was only
after Gotlieb killed himself that the NZa began an investigation into his
claims.
The report,
commissioned by health minister Edith Schippers is due to be formally presented
on Tuesday.
MPs polled
by Nos television said they were not surprised by the report's criticism and
have called for an emergency debate with the minister.
Socialist
MP Renske Leijten said the fact that there is, in effect, no independent
healthcare regulator in the Netherlands puts all decisions taken about the care
system 'in a dubious light'.
Theo Langejan, chairman of the NZA. (NOS/NZA/ANP)
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"THE BRIDGE OF SWORDS" – Sep 29, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) - (Text Version)
"THE BRIDGE OF SWORDS" – Sep 29, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) - (Text Version)
“…I'm in Canada and I know it, but I will tell those listening and reading in the American audience the following: Get ready! Because there are some institutions that are yet to fall, ones that don't have integrity and that could never be helped with a bail out. Again, we tell you the biggest one is big pharma, and we told you that before. It's inevitable. If not now, then in a decade. It's inevitable and they will fight to stay alive and they will not be crossing the bridge. For on the other side of the bridge is a new way, not just for medicine but for care. Paradigms that have not yet been thought of, which don't represent any system that currently exists, will be created and developed by young minds who have concepts that the seniors don't know about. Things that don't have integrity today will fall over tomorrow. Just get ready. It's all part of what's on the other side of the bridge. And the old energy won't like it, and they will object. …”
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