Quality Board
The Quality Board (KR) of the National Health Care Institute is an independent board of experts on quality of care. This board provides both solicited and unsolicited advice to the National Health Care Institute and it has a statutory role in the institute’s powers to overrule.
Tasks of the Quality Board
The Quality Board fulfils the statutory tasks described in the Healthcare Insurance Act (Zvw) and provides both solicited and unsolicited advice to the Executive Board of the National Health Care Institute.
Advising
The Quality Board gives the Executive Board of the National Health Care Institute recommendations relating to:
- the long-term agenda and work programme of the National Health Care Institute;
- the relationship between quality standards and the funding of care;
- providing a clear picture of information about the quality of care;
- the Assessment Framework and any doubts about the testing;
- policy and implementation of the National Health Care Institute’s quality-related activities;
- substantial financial impacts of quality standards (together with the Insured Package Advisory Committee);
- broad themes about the quality of care;
- quality registries.
Active role
In addition, the Quality Board can play a mediating role in discussions about quality and the development and implementation of quality tools. One specific task concerns what is known as the overruling power; this is when the Executive Board of the National Health Care Institute can ask the Quality Board to draw up (in full or in part) a quality standard or measurement instrument.