The Dutch are no longer re-embursed for Vitamin D
Monitoring the vitamin D package measure
"...discontinue the reimbursement of all vitamin D products containing cholecalciferol or calcifediol from 1 January 2023"
People belong to this vulnerable group if they have at least 1 of these characteristics.
This was selected because people often have more than 1 issue.
people with difficulty keeping oversight of their medicines;
people with osteoporosis;
people with a language barrier or an immigration background;
people with a low level of education;
people with low socio-economic status;
people with generally ill health;
people with limited health literacy;
people with low-level literacy.
Study results: most people continued taking vitamin D
The study shows that a large proportion of vulnerable people have continued to take vitamin D:
65% continued to use vitamin D and now pay for it themselves. The main reason is that people consider vitamin D necessary for their health.
5% stopped taking vitamin D. Half of them say they stopped because they cannot afford it.
20% still had a supply of vitamin D and continued to use it. Of this group, *
70% say they will continue taking vitamin D when they run out of supply.
- 6 to 7% say they will stop.
The remaining 10% did not enter any useful information.
The study also shows that patient compliance in vulnerable vitamin D users is not optimal in 2023: some people take less vitamin D than they should. However, that was already the case in 2022, meaning that patient compliance has not changed as a result of the package measure.
Patient compliance is not optimal
" Almost half of the people using it forget to take it and part of them consciously takes it differently.
Half of the stoppers indicate they cannot afford the product
About 5% of the vulnerable group report that they have stopped taking vitamin D, half of them because they cannot afford it.
• If this is extrapolated to the Dutch situation, it affects about 25,000 vulnerable people who are forgoing vitamin D because of the costs (available over the counter from less than 10 euros per person per year).
Note by VitaminDWiki: 50,000 IU pill every two weeks would cost <5 euros/person/year
AND there would be 13 fewer occasions to forget to take it
📄 Download the 5 page study from VitaminDWiki
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