‘Appropriate care’ is an approach for ensuring that everyone will be able to get good care in the future too. This is care that works, in which patient and healthcare provider make the decisions together. This means a change in the way we think about care, focusing less on illness and treatment and more on a commitment to health and what a person can do.
Appropriate care: it’s how we’re keeping care healthy
- Care is under pressure
- More and more care needed
- Fewer and fewer healthcare professionals
- More and more expensive medicines
- Higher healthcare costs
- Everyone has to pay more
- It will soon be impossible to provide more care for all
- Choices need to be made
- Appropriate care offers a solution
- Appropriate care works...
- ...at a reasonable price...
- ...with joint decision-making by care provider and patient...
- …close to the patient...
- ...by being more about health, less about illness
- Appropriate care works...
- Working together on appropriate care
- In consultation with society at large
- Patients, healthcare sector parties and governmental authorities make agreements about organising appropriate care...
- ...working and networking together...
- ...and sharing successful projects
- The government reimburses appropriate care
- The healthcare professionals provide appropriate care
- The healthcare insurers buy in appropriate care
- The patients accept appropriate care
- Outcomes of appropriate care
- Healthcare costs rise less
- More done to promote health and prevent illness
- Patients get better care and care that suits them
- There are no unnecessary examinations of patients
- Promising treatments and medicines remain accessible
- Less pressure on the healthcare professionals