The Healthcare Quality, Complaints and Disputes Act

By January 1, 2017 all care providers must have a complaints officer to whom people can go if they have a complaint. If the complaints officer can’t solve the complaint, people can take their complaint to an independent complaints commission. The commission’s decision on the complaint is binding for both parties. The complaints commission can also award damages.

De Geschillencommissie Zorg is such an independent complaints commission. We offer a quick and low-cost means of resolving a dispute. These alternative dispute schemes are acknowledged by both the Dutch Government and the European Commission.

On this website people can file a complaint against a care provider of one of the independent complaints commissions.

If you are a consumer:

1. In case you are a resident of the Netherlands, who does not speak Dutch and you want to file a complaint with one of the complaints boards, you could ask a friend or relative, who is able to speak and write in the Dutch language, to assist you with filing a complaint at the complaints board.

2. In case you are a non-Dutch speaking resident of an EU country, Norway or Iceland and you live outside of the Netherlands and you would like to file a complaint with one of the complaints boards, please contact the European Consumer Centre (ECC) in your own country. The ECC in your country will communicate with you in your own language

The ECC is not allowed to advocate on your behalf at the complaints board, they can only assist you. The ECC provides information on your consumer rights within the EU. For further information in English you can visit www.eccnederland.nl/en.

NOTE: All other information on this website is in Dutch.