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KCE Reports 323C (2019) Excess capacity of Belgian maternity services was calculated in KCE report 289 and amounts to about 1 000 beds. Hence, a reduction in the number of maternity services was recommended. This is in line with an international trend to close smaller maternity services and transfer their activities to larger services in order to reduce the average cost per delivery.

KCE Reports 299C (2018)Agreements with the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) are a means of financing care which primarily applies to multidisciplinary care, particularly in the rehabilitation sector. There are currently 34 of them; they encompass a varied array of services and concern a large range of chronic and/or complex problems: diabetes, dementia, respiratory disease, rare metabolic diseases, genital mutilation, etc.At the request of NIHDI, we developed a method allowing their quality and effectiveness to be evaluated (and possibly improved).