GP

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A GP's workspace - a stethoscope on a desk with a laptop and notebooks
HealthTechInnovation
Health insurer financially pressuring doctors to use unreliable triage apps, GP's say
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Male doctor with stethoscope
Health
Popular house doctor tool is unlicensed, uses unclear sources to provide medical advice
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Male doctor with stethoscope
HealthBusiness
Health insurers to help doctors set up general practices as shortages mount
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Male doctor with stethoscope
Health
Nearly 400 Dutch doctors register to prescribe abortion pill
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Emergency services closed down several streets in Heemskerk after a man showed up at a GP post with symptoms of an infectious tropical disease, 13 March 2025
Health
Heemskerk streets locked down for hours over man with tropical disease at GP practice
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The Co-Med website remained online even as the company’s offices referred all patients to other healthcare professionals. 21 June 2024
HealthBusiness
Family doctor chain Co-Med declared bankrupt
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The Co-Med website remained online even as the company’s offices referred all patients to other healthcare professionals. 21 June 2024
Business
General practitioner chain Co-Med files for bankruptcy
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Piggy bank with a stethoscope
Business
Large Dutch health insurers taking measures against family physician chain Co-Med
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A stethoscope on a stack of euros
HealthBusiness
National family physician chain Co-Med narrowly escapes bankruptcy
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Close up of doctor listening to patient heartbeat with stethoscope
HealthBusiness
Amsterdam physicians begin fining patients who miss appointments
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Doctor
Health
Doctors increasingly have to dissuade patients from medical misinformation found online
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Woman sleeping with benzodiazepine sleeping pills on her bedside table
Health
Hundreds of thousands of Dutch taking addictive sleeping pills for longer than safe
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A physician is holding his stethoscope
Crime
Brunssum GP banned from practicing as doctor after raping multiple patients
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A GP's workspace - a stethoscope on a desk with a laptop and notebooks
Health
Inspectorate places commercial house doctor chain under increased supervision
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Doctor
Health
Thousands of Netherlands residents on lengthy waiting lists for primary doctors
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Wind turbines
Health
Doctors concerned about noise pollution caused by wind turbines
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A GP's workspace - a stethoscope on a desk with a laptop and notebooks
Crime
Brunssum physician gets 1.5 years in prison for raping patient
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The Maastoren, Wilhelminatoren, and the Rotterdam courthouse in August 2016
Crime
Man sentenced to psychiatric treatment for stabbing a doctor while in a psychosis
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A GP's workspace - a stethoscope on a desk with a laptop and notebooks
HealthCrime
Suspect held in fatal stabbing of Hague doctor facing psychiatric institutionalization
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Police arrest a suspect.
Crime
Groningen doctor held in man's death at Drouwen vacation park
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Nursing home
Health
Healthcare staff shortages: Desperate measures to fill rosters in summer vacation
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Doctor
HealthBusiness
Millions of Dutch patient files copied, stored by commercial software company
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Ivermectin pills confiscated by customs officials in Germany in November 2021
Health
Dutch doctors prescribing controversial scabies medicine to Long Covid patients
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Library
Business
Nearly 2 million Netherlands residents don't have library, train station within reach