The End-of-Life Clinic was founded in 2012 by the NVVE ( Dutch Voluntary Termination of Life Association).
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The NVVE finds it completely unacceptable that patients with a psychiatric condition have to wait two years for the assessment of their euthanasia request. In a letter, the NVVE is urging Minister De Jonge of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to work with mental health care on a "Delta Plan for Psychiatry and Euthanasia".
An earlier appeal by the NVVE to treating psychiatrists to be coached by the Expertise Center Euthanasia brought little relief. Last year, the cabinet made many millions of euros extra available for mental health care (mental health care), but the situation is only getting more dire when it comes to ending life.
That is why the NVVE wants the minister to intervene now. With a Delta Plan for Psychiatry and Euthanasia, psychiatrists must be better trained and supervised so that they can more often process a euthanasia request from their patient themselves.
Euthanasia Expertise Center (formerly the End of Life Clinic) announced this week that the waiting list clearly indicates that regular mental health care still barely responds to a euthanasia request. Far too often referrals are made to the expertise center. Euthanasia Expertise Center employs seven psychiatrists and last year provided euthanasia to psychiatric patients more than sixty times. That's about 10 percent of the number of requests submitted. Psychiatrists not affiliated with the center gave euthanasia only six times last year.
The NVVE established the expertise center eight years ago, precisely because it happened too often that people could not go to their own doctor for euthanasia. This has been going on in psychiatry for a long time. NVVE director Agnes Wolbert: ,, When patients with a psychiatric condition end up on a long waiting list with their euthanasia request, it is a dramatic and desperate extension of their suffering. Waiting lists in mental health care are a problem in themselves, but the NVVE is seriously concerned about the position of these patients who wish to die. If they are not heard, violent suicide should not become the only solution. ""
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The NVVE finds it completely unacceptable that patients with a psychiatric condition have to wait two years for the assessment of their euthanasia request. In a letter, the NVVE is urging Minister De Jonge of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to work with mental health care on a "Delta Plan for Psychiatry and Euthanasia".
An earlier appeal by the NVVE to treating psychiatrists to be coached by the Expertise Center Euthanasia brought little relief. Last year, the cabinet made many millions of euros extra available for mental health care (mental health care), but the situation is only getting more dire when it comes to ending life.
That is why the NVVE wants the minister to intervene now. With a Delta Plan for Psychiatry and Euthanasia, psychiatrists must be better trained and supervised so that they can more often process a euthanasia request from their patient themselves.
Euthanasia Expertise Center (formerly the End of Life Clinic) announced this week that the waiting list clearly indicates that regular mental health care still barely responds to a euthanasia request. Far too often referrals are made to the expertise center. Euthanasia Expertise Center employs seven psychiatrists and last year provided euthanasia to psychiatric patients more than sixty times. That's about 10 percent of the number of requests submitted. Psychiatrists not affiliated with the center gave euthanasia only six times last year.
The NVVE established the expertise center eight years ago, precisely because it happened too often that people could not go to their own doctor for euthanasia. This has been going on in psychiatry for a long time. NVVE director Agnes Wolbert: ,, When patients with a psychiatric condition end up on a long waiting list with their euthanasia request, it is a dramatic and desperate extension of their suffering. Waiting lists in mental health care are a problem in themselves, but the NVVE is seriously concerned about the position of these patients who wish to die. If they are not heard, violent suicide should not become the only solution. ""
NVVE wil deltaplan voor euthanasie in psychiatrie
De NVVE vindt het volstrekt onaanvaardbaar dat patiënten met een psychiatrische aandoening inmiddels twee jaar moeten wachten op de beoordeling van hun euthanasieverzoek. De NVVE dringt er bij minister De Jonge van VWS in een brief op aan dat hij samen met de geestelijke gezondheidszorg gaat...
