“Funding for Central Care Provider and Combined Lifestyle Intervention for Overweight and Obese Children in the Netherlands”

Two new achievements

The central care provider coordinates and ensures coordination between care in the medical domain and assistance in the social domain. In Amsterdam, the GGD Amsterdam and health insurer Zilveren Kruis experimented with this function. The Maastricht University Medical Center and health insurers CZ and VGZ worked with a central care provider and combined lifestyle intervention (GLI) for children. Under supervision, children worked on achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Rijnstate and Menzis also experimented with this chain approach in Arnhem. The experiments will end when the new funding takes effect on 1 January 2024.

Appointments IZA and GALA

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Association of Dutch Municipalities and Health Insurers in the Netherlands have made agreements in the Integral Care Agreement (IZA) and Healthy and Active Life Agreement (GALA) about the national implementation of the chain approach for overweight and obesity in children. The new funding of the NZa is an important precondition for this. The aforementioned parties are working hard on the other preconditions. Think of effective care programs, sufficient and qualified central care providers and lifestyle coaches.