Step 1 · Contact
What the matter concerns.
The practice, in detail
General practice, continuity of care, your record, and being new.
Program 01 · Registered activity
General medical practice
Practising medicine in Belgium requires the diploma, a visa from the federal health authority, registration in the federal register of healthcare professionals and registration with the Order of Physicians. Those appear on the legal page rather than as loose claims here. A practitioner may act only within the limits of their competence, so where a matter falls outside this practice you will be told and referred rather than seen anyway.
Step 2 · Consultation
History, examination, discussion.
Step 3 · Information
Purpose, risks, costs, options.
Step 4 · Consent
Freely given, after all of that.
Step 1 · The absence
Planned or otherwise.
Step 2 · The colleague
Holding the required competence.
Step 3 · The record
Reachable to whoever covers.
Step 4 · The handback
What happened while away.
Program 02 · A duty, not a favour
Continuity of care
Belgian law requires a practitioner to ensure the continuity of the care they provide. When absent, care must be taken over by a colleague holding the required competence, and the patient record must be accessible to them so that nobody resumes your care without knowing what has happened so far. Participation in organised on-call arrangements is part of the same duty. For a practice at this stage it is the question worth answering first.
Program 03 · Decades, not months
Your record
A patient record must be retained for at least thirty years after the last contact and may be kept for up to fifty. It will comfortably outlive the episode that created it, which is precisely why how it is written matters from the first consultation rather than from the point a practice feels established. You have a right of access to it and a right to obtain a copy, and those are rights rather than favours.
Step 1 · Written
Properly, at the time.
Step 2 · Kept
For decades, not for now.
Step 3 · Reachable
To whoever covers for us.
Step 4 · Yours
Access and copy on request.
Step 1 · The honest bit
How new this actually is.
Step 2 · What is set
Cover, record, fees.
Step 3 · The limits
Where competence ends.
Step 4 · The referral
Made rather than avoided.
Program 04 · Said, not hidden
Being new
The company was registered in September 2026 and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. What a new practice can offer is not accumulated reputation but the things that are either in place or not: continuity arrangements, a record kept properly, fees stated before rather than after, and a clear willingness to refer. A practitioner maintains a portfolio documenting qualifications and continuing education, and acts only within their competence.
Need to contact the practice?
Fees are stated in advance on request. In an emergency, contact the emergency services.