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Le financement des soins infirmiers à domicile en Belgique - KCE

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32 Financing of Home Nursing <strong>KCE</strong> reports 122<br />

Labour differ<strong>en</strong>tiation • Nursing organisations employ<br />

two times more nursing aids than<br />

nurses.<br />

Financing of home<br />

care nursing<br />

New developm<strong>en</strong>ts<br />

in financing<br />

Nursing qualifications<br />

& financing<br />

France<br />

dep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t (elderly)<br />

persons;<br />

The Netherlands Germany UK (England)<br />

3. indep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t nurses<br />

(IDEL) (sometimes in<br />

collaboration with<br />

SSIADs).<br />

• Labour differ<strong>en</strong>tiation is breaking<br />

through by ori<strong>en</strong>ting nurses on<br />

technical nursing activities and<br />

delegating some basic nursing<br />

tasks to nursing aids.<br />

• Lump sum ‘per diem’ and fixed<br />

budget for the SSIAD.<br />

• Fee for service system for the<br />

IDEL.<br />

• Regional unions of health<br />

insurance funds can conclude<br />

local contracts with health care<br />

professionals, in addition to the<br />

national agreem<strong>en</strong>ts.<br />

• Homecare organisations are<br />

financed based on a daily fixed<br />

price per pati<strong>en</strong>t taking into<br />

account average nursing time<br />

required and pati<strong>en</strong>ts’ case-mix.<br />

• Qualification levels are not the<br />

basis for funding<br />

• The qualification structure for<br />

nurses is differ<strong>en</strong>tiated in five<br />

levels.<br />

• There is a tr<strong>en</strong>d to ori<strong>en</strong>t nurses<br />

on technical and specialized<br />

nursing activities by delegating<br />

basic nursing tasks to nursing aids<br />

and helpers.<br />

• Lump sum per pati<strong>en</strong>t on a needs<br />

assessm<strong>en</strong>t.<br />

• Contracting to introduce<br />

competition.<br />

• An emerging financing issue is the<br />

nursing and treatm<strong>en</strong>t provided<br />

after early discharge of a hospital.<br />

Transfer nurses are financed<br />

either by the hospitals themselves<br />

or through home care<br />

organisation.<br />

• Qualification levels are not the<br />

basis for funding.<br />

• Labour differ<strong>en</strong>tiation over differ<strong>en</strong>t<br />

nursing categories to provide the<br />

differ<strong>en</strong>t services.<br />

• The health insurance framework<br />

makes a strict hierarchy of service<br />

<strong>en</strong>titlem<strong>en</strong>t (specialized nursing, basic<br />

nursing, and home help as a<br />

supplem<strong>en</strong>t to nursing).<br />

• Mainly a fee-for-service basis using<br />

needs assessm<strong>en</strong>t.<br />

• Contracting to improve competition.<br />

• The introduction of morbidityori<strong>en</strong>ted<br />

risk structure comp<strong>en</strong>sation<br />

("morbi-RSA") in the financing system<br />

aims to prev<strong>en</strong>t pati<strong>en</strong>t selection by<br />

sickness funds and to improve care for<br />

pati<strong>en</strong>ts with chronic diseases.<br />

• Some pilot initiatives fund the<br />

developm<strong>en</strong>t of integrated service<br />

provision in primary care settings.<br />

• The same care, provided by differ<strong>en</strong>t<br />

qualification levels nursing or caring<br />

imply a differ<strong>en</strong>t tariff.<br />

• Nurses training levels are<br />

highly differ<strong>en</strong>tiated. Nurses<br />

responsibilities are closely<br />

connected to these<br />

differ<strong>en</strong>tiated qualification<br />

levels.<br />

• Lump sum per pati<strong>en</strong>t,<br />

annual fixed budgets,<br />

refer<strong>en</strong>ce costs.<br />

• Contracting to introduce<br />

competition.<br />

• The NHS uses a model of<br />

refer<strong>en</strong>ce costs linked to<br />

Paym<strong>en</strong>t by Results. Extramarket<br />

forces costs are<br />

tak<strong>en</strong> into account<br />

• Qualifications levels are not<br />

the basis for funding

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