Why and how Flanders wants to roll out goal-oriented, integrated care based on life goals. A reflection between policymakers and policy organizations.

Flanders believes that integrated care can only be achieved by linking medical care, with welfare and social care, creating local government participation and including the voice of the patient and his or her caregiver in local and central policy processes. In order to evolve from fragmented primary care to integrated care, a participatory procedure was mapped out in Flanders: since 2020 existing structures were changed and several tools have been developed to transform the way of care into goal oriented care. The Flemish meso level was thoroughly rearranged: during the covid years population-... Mehr ...