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KCE Reports 353C (2022)

KCE Reports 341C (2021) Add-on to “Performance of the Belgian health system – report 2019” This report is an add-on to a previous KCE report published in 2019 that assessed the performance of the Belgian health system (KCE Report 313). 

KCE Reports 335C (2020) When the Covid-19 crisis broke out, additional capacity quickly had to be created in the hospitals. The Hospital & Transport Surge Capacity (HTSC) committee was set up at the beginning of March 2020 to advise the Risk Management Group on maximum hospital and patient transport capacity. In June 2020 the KCE was given the task of evaluating how the committee had functioned during the first wave of the epidemic and the way the hospitals responded to the measures it had enacted.

KCE Reports 325C (2019) At the international level, it is generally accepted that patient safety in hospitals cannot be guaranteed when there are more than 8 patients per nurse. However, in Belgian hospitals, nurses have to look after 9.4 patients on average. That is already better than 10 years ago, when a study carried out by KU Leuven found that there was 1 nurse per 11 patients.