frequently asked questions and contact

The HAPMH is a cooperative venture between all GPs in the municipalities of Ammerstol, Benschop, Bergambacht, Berkenwoude, Bodegraven, Boskoop, Bleiswijk, Cabauw, Driebruggen, Gouda, Gouderak, Haastrecht, Hekendorp, Krimpen aan de Lek, Lekkerkerk, Moerkapelle, Moordrecht, Nieuwerbrug, Ouderkerk aan de IJssel, Oudewater, Papekop, Polsbroek, Reeuwijk, Schoonhoven, Snelrewaard, Stolwijk, Vlist, Waarder, Waddinxveen, Zevenhuizen en Zwammerdam.

De HAPMH provides urgent GP care outside regular consultation hours: every day between 5:00 PM and 8:00 AM, throughout the weekend, and on all recognized public holidays.

No. It is important for you and the organization that you telephone the GP Medical Post first and explain the problem or symptoms to the doctor's assistant. Together, you and the doctor's assistant will determine whether or not an appointment is needed for a consultation, or if a doctor will visit you at home. The telephone number of the HAPMH is: +31 (0)182-322488.

Troublesome but non-urgent problems can wait until your own GP practice is open again for consultations. Repeat prescriptions can only be issued for medicines that are absolutely essential and only for a short period. You should not consult the GP Medical Post for a second opinion or if you don't have time on normal working days to see your own GP.

Yes, of course you can call. If your own GP is not affiliated to the GP Medical Post scheme, you can call the HAPMH for urgent cases outside regular consultation hours. If you come to the GP Medical Post for a consultation, you will need to pay either electronically (by debit card) or in cash straight away. You will receive a receipt for this. In case of a telephone consultation, an invoice will be sent to your home address. You can then declare the costs to your health insurance provider.

Identification is required by law. Furthermore it is important to register the correct data in connection with the invoice. Always bring your ID showing your Social security number and your insurance card with you to the GP Medical Post.

Law Partial prohibition of face-covering clothing
We think it is important that you feel welcome for emergency GP care at the HAP. We do not exclude anyone from appropriate care.
To identify and provide good care you will be asked to take off your nikab, burka, full-face helmet or other face-covering clothing.

● GPs
● GPs in training. These always work under the supervision of a doctor. The degree of supervision depends on the phase in the training.
● Nursing Specialists. These are nurses who have followed additional training. They see a predetermined selection of health complaints. If necessary, they consult with a doctor. They may also deregister (certain) medicines.
● Physician Assistents. They are similar to the Nursing Specialist, except that the prior education may be different, eg physiotherapy.
● Consultation hours GP doctors. These are doctor's assistants who have followed additional training and are therefore able to handle a selected number of health complaints independently. These contacts are always authorized by a doctor.
● Triagists. These are doctor's assistants who have had additional training in assessing the (telephone) request for help. With the help of an electronic triage system, she determines how urgent the request for help is.
● Doctor's assistants. The doctor's assistants who work for us already have a lot of experience and are in training as a triagist.
● Medical students. Due to a shortage of triagists, we also use medical students to assess the telephone request for help. They have also received training for this.

Complaints

A lot of people work at the HAPMH. It is possible that you are not satisfied about certain aspects of the contact you've had with us.

We think it's important that you share your complaint with us.

For you it's the possibility to discuss the complaint with us. For us it's an opportunity to see if we can make things better in our organisation.

If possible discuss the complaint directly with the GP or the employee at the GP Medical Post. If this is not possible you can submit the complaint to an independent and impartial complaints officer who will work with you to find a solution through mediation.

You can download the complaintsform here. You can also use this form to tell us things you think we need to know, but are not severe enough for a complaint.

If you have filled in the form, please sent it to:

Huisartsenpost Midden-Holland
T.a.v. Commissie Klachten en Meldingen
Antwoordnummer 10123
2800 VB Gouda

If the mediation doesn't succeed, you can submit your complaint at the 'Geschillencommissie Huisartsenzorg'. This committee can decide on your complaint. For more information: www.skge.nl/patienten.

Compliments

If you wish to pass on a compliment about the GP Medical Post and/or your treatment at the GP Medical Post, we would be pleased to hear from you. You can send us an e-mail or telephone us.
E-mail: huisartsenpost@hapmh.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)182-322478

The current rates are shown here. These rates apply in the evenings, at night, and at weekends, and have been determined by law by the Dutch Healthcare Authority (Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit, NZa).

Telephone consultations by a general practitioner, VS or PA are declared as a consultation, whereby this telephone consultation:
- serves to replace a consultation or visit.
- the elements contain: anamnesis, (telephone) examination of (alarm) symptoms, evaluation and treatment advice.  

Any time you contact the GP Medical Post and are given medical advice over the telephone, you or your health insurance provider will receive an invoice. You will still receive an invoice even if your only contact was with the doctor's assistant and he/she provided you with medical advice. The doctor's assistant has been trained for this and does this under the responsibility of the GP on duty. The medical advice given by the doctor's assistant is always assessed afterwards by a GP.

If you don't appear at an appointment that was scheduled for you, you get an invoice for a phone consultation.

Only in urgent cases the GP Medical Post issues repeat prescriptions. You will never be given a prescription for more of the medication than is required until you can contact your own GP for a repeat prescription. Certain medicines are never provided by the GP Medical Post.

See Pharmacy.

Sometimes this is possible, but the information isn't always accurate or visible.
This is why it is important to bring along an up-to-date overview of the medicines you are currently using. (You can pick up this overview from your own pharmacy.)

If you have given permission for this to your own general practitioner, the general practitioner and the assistant at the general practitioner post can view a summary of your medical file. However, it is never 100% sure that this link works, which is why it remains important that you provide important medical information yourself.

Safe access to your medical data during corona crisis
Due to the corona crisis, the HAP is busier than usual. We can help you faster and better if we can look at the medical data that your GP keeps with you.
8 million Dutch people have already given their GP permission to share their data with the HAP. Have you not made a choice yet? HAP can view your data through a temporary government measure. Our employees will first ask you for permission before they view your medical data.

Are you not approachable? Then the HAP may view your medical data without your permission.

Have you previously indicated that you do not consent? Then nothing changes. Your medical data can never be viewed, even during the corona crisis.

More information
You can find more information about the temporary measure on the website volgjezorg.nl/corona-opt. On Volgjezorg.nl you can also see who has viewed your medical data and / or adjust or pass on your choice for making the data available from the general practitioner to the GP post.

Yes. Your own GP will be informed about your contact with the GP Medical Post on the next working day.

Our GP medical post participates in the collection of data for scientific research by the Netherlands Institute for Healthcare Research (Nivel). Nivel has a very strict privacy policy and does not receive information from us that allows patients to be directly identified. Patients can request more information from our care provider (s) and also register their possible objections.

More information can be found on the website of Nivel Zorregistraties first line: http://www.nivel.nl/zorgregistraties and for privacy protection: https://www.nivel.nl/nl/NZR/over-nivel/privacybescherming.

See Privacy policy.

No. Not having transport is not a reason to send the emergency doctor on duty. Patients must take care of their own transport. The GP on duty will only visit the patient at home if transport is not possible for medical reasons.

This depends on the judgement of the patient's condition. In cases requiring real urgency - for instance if the patient's life is or could be in danger - the rule is applied that a medical expert must arrive within 20 minutes. This could be the GP on duty at the GP Medical Post or it could be an ambulance. If the patient's condition is less critical, the GP on duty will try to reach the patient as soon as possible. Naturally, emergency cases take precedence over less urgent visits, as is the case for your own GP.

If you cannot be transported to the GP Medical Post for medical reasons, a GP will visit you at home. The GP will be brought by a driver who can also provide medical assistance. The driver has been given special training for this role. For instance, at the instructions of the doctor, the driver can hand the doctor medical instruments, or operate equipment used by the doctor.

The drivers of the GP on duty are very familiar with and knowledgeable about the region. The cars are also equipped with a navigation system.

The drivers of the GP on duty are allowed to use a flashing light and a siren in cases when time is of the essence and a person's life is in danger and the doctor needs to reach the patient as quickly as possible. In principle, as is the case with ambulances, the doctor should arrive within 15 minutes.