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Healthcare
Belgian healthcare scored very highly in the European
Quality of Life Survey (2007), which asked people to
rate services on a scale of 1 to 10.
Patient waiting times here are short and accessibility of
healthcare is good. In fact, the 2009 Euro Health
Consumer Index ranks Belgium among the
top countries in Europe in this respect.
Healthcare in Flanders is also very highly developed, with
650 hospital beds and 292 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants
(2009 figures). This places Flanders ahead of many European countries.
You can find a general practioner here (only in Dutch).
Most general practitioners speak Dutch, English and French. You can either make an appointment or just go to a doctor’s surgery during the time allotted for unscheduled consultations.
Belgium’s mandatory health insurance system means that more than half the cost of visits to dentists, hospital doctors and GPs will be reimbursed, so users of the system get great value for money.
Most general practitioners speak Dutch, English and French. You can either make an appointment or just go to a doctor’s surgery during the time allotted for unscheduled consultations.
“It took a little while to figure out the Belgian healthcare system, but generally speaking we’ve had nothing but positive experiences with it. The GPs are great, as are the specialists.”
