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General practitioners
General practitioner (GP), or family doctor is a physician specialised in 'General Practice'. This physician* doesn’t work in a hospital but in "primary...
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Introduction
Hospital departments and care programmes
Hospital functions
Medico-technical departments
Quality of care and patient safety in hospitals
Hospitals provide...
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Hospital departments
Overview of the care programmes
Monitoring, quality and evaluation
Recognition
Hospital departments
A hospital department* offers patients a specific...
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Since 2002, physicians in Belgium are, under stringent statutory conditions, allowed to perform euthanasia at a patient's request. However, physicians can never be compelled to do...
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In response to a question from the European Parliament in 1997, Belgium enacteda the law on non-conventional practices* of 29.04.1999, also known as the "law Colla" (Belgian...
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Hospitals
General hospitals
Psychiatric hospitals
Day care centres for the elderly
Psychiatric nursing homes
Mental health centres
Primary care centres...
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A hospital function* is a type of hospital-wide service. Hospital functions are transversal in nature and transcend the various hospital departments. For instance:
The hospital...
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Thanks to technological and scientific developments, the hospital sector has access to specialist equipment. The cost of this equipment can be astronomical. Also the staff who...
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Quality of care and patient safety are not only top of the Belgian healthcare policy agenda but are also major priorities for healthcare providers and hospitals across Belgium....
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Psychiatric hospitals* are hospitals that exclusively concentrate on offering care to patients experiencing a range of mental health conditions.
Not only psychiatric hospitals but...