Hospitals do not have enough money for expensive new drugs – Focus on News

That’s because doctors are not allowed by the directors of their hospital. The new drugs are extremely expensive and hospitals just to get enough budget to provide these drugs to patients. This reports the NOS Sunday.

The annual budget for the expensive drugs takes insufficient account of new drugs coming onto the market and new patients who report. It involves medications that are included in the basic insurance.

In 2012, reclassified Minister Schippers budget for expensive drugs on to the hospitals. Hospitals must now choose patients often expensive drugs or abstain themselves financially submerging. Professor Marcel Levi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AMC in Amsterdam: “The funding of these expensive resources running behind the facts. The budget for 2015 does not take into account the drugs that relax this year and with the new patients we therefore have to deal with.

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Smaller hospitals send patients should get very expensive drugs often to teaching hospitals or specialized cancer hospital, as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in Amsterdam. The AMC has now begun to refuse patients who are sent to another hospital because doctors may not prescribe an expensive drug.