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KCE Reports 358C (2022)

KCE Reports 335C (2020) When the Covid-19 crisis broke out, additional capacity quickly had to be created in the hospitals. The Hospital & Transport Surge Capacity (HTSC) committee was set up at the beginning of March 2020 to advise the Risk Management Group on maximum hospital and patient transport capacity. In June 2020 the KCE was given the task of evaluating how the committee had functioned during the first wave of the epidemic and the way the hospitals responded to the measures it had enacted.

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 289C (2017) As part of her hospital landscape reform plans, the Minister of Public Health asked KCE to calculate how many beds we will need in hospitals in 2025. It seems we already have too much capacity in the current situation and that this will escalate in the years to come.