Le financement des soins infirmiers à domicile en Belgique - KCE
Le financement des soins infirmiers à domicile en Belgique - KCE
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