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Le financement des soins infirmiers à domicile en Belgique - KCE

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<strong>KCE</strong> Report 122 Financing of Home Nursing 103<br />

6. Synthesizing, theorizing, re-contextualizing using inter-participant analysis and<br />

analysis of categories (ML, LP). Comparative analysis of parallel stakeholder<br />

groups.<br />

THEME 1: REMARKS AND COMMENTS ON THE CURRENT<br />

FINANCING SYSTEM<br />

Topic 1: G<strong>en</strong>eral<br />

Quite a number of participants had comm<strong>en</strong>ts and remarks that can be labelled as<br />

“g<strong>en</strong>eral” in the s<strong>en</strong>se that hold <strong>en</strong>compassing issues on health care organisation and<br />

policy making.<br />

Lack of global vision<br />

A recurr<strong>en</strong>t remark was that in the Belgian organisation and financing of health care<br />

lacks a global vision on the organisation of health care delivery and, more particularly a<br />

vision on how the curr<strong>en</strong>t financing model can be adapted to deal with the new<br />

chall<strong>en</strong>ges.<br />

• “Curr<strong>en</strong>tly modifications to the financing system are not based on a global<br />

reflection on the financing system, but there are only small case by case<br />

adaptations”ff (participant 11).<br />

• “A holistic vision is required ... it would be better to adopt a totally new<br />

financing system rather than to provide little/partial solutions using separate<br />

increm<strong>en</strong>tal ad hoc financing mechanisms” (participant 12; session 1).<br />

Pleas to adapt the financing model to the organisation model<br />

Stakeholders argue that the organisation model of health care (including the role of<br />

home nursing) should be well reflected before changing/adapting the financing system.<br />

Participants urged to develop a financing system taking into account clearly defined<br />

objectives underlying the int<strong>en</strong>ded organisation of home nursing: the integration of<br />

home nursing with hospital based care delivery and primary care (organisational<br />

objective), the promotion of good practice, the promotion of a global view on the<br />

pati<strong>en</strong>t, etc. ...<br />

• “The financing system should promote the integration of home nursing in the<br />

global health care delivery” (participant 11; session 2)<br />

Remarks on a segm<strong>en</strong>ted policy approach of healthcare sectors<br />

Participants criticised the fact that the debate on financing and healthcare organisation is<br />

curr<strong>en</strong>tly fragm<strong>en</strong>ted. The policies for differ<strong>en</strong>t healthcare sectors are too segm<strong>en</strong>ted,<br />

approached as separate boxes: e.g. if the hospital stays become shorter, there are no<br />

provisions (there is no plan) for home nursing to take care of higher numbers and<br />

technical complexity of pati<strong>en</strong>ts in a post-acute stage of recovery. Moreover, the<br />

increasing number of chronic conditions to care for within home care put pressure on<br />

the complexity and severity of nursing. These aspects of changing severity and<br />

complexity are expected to be embedded in a vision on the organisation of primary<br />

care and home nursing within a more broad health care perspective.<br />

• “Healthcare is shifting towards a transmural chronic care model requiring<br />

other/higher compet<strong>en</strong>cies, specialisation, ... the nom<strong>en</strong>clature of home<br />

nursing is poorly adapted to this new model“ (participant 2; session 1).<br />

ff We selected quotes illustrating the issue. Oft<strong>en</strong> more quotes are made by more participants on the same<br />

issue. Of course we translated the original quotes of the participants, trying to stick as close as possible<br />

to the original one.

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