The health service authority NZa is to look into exactly how much family doctors earn, health minister Edith Schippers told tv programme Pauw & Witteman on Thursday night.

The minister was speaking after thousands of doctors gathered in Amsterdam to protest at government plans to cut spending on family doctor services by €132m.
Schippers says doctors’ pay has increased over the past few years to above the norm of around €100,000.
Doctors say this is nonsense and that cutting budgets by some €20,000 per practice will dilute the service and cost more because they will have to refer more patients to hospitals for treatment.
The family doctors’ association LHV thinks it is a good idea to involve the NZa. ‘But,’ says chairman Steven van Eijck, ‘she must accept their findings and not just say the cut is because we spent too much last year,’