Health minister Edith Schippers is poised to offer family doctors more money to fund the takeover of some tasks normally carried out by accident and emergency hospital departments, the Telegraaf reports on Friday.

Doctors are furious that the minister plans to claw back an €112m overspend on their budgets this year and have threatened to refer more cases to hospital rather than treat them themselves.
But the minister wants to stimulate doctors to take on more minor operations and other work and hopes they will set up special first aid posts where patients can go for a range of treatments. She hopes extra money in 2012 and 2013 will make this possible.
However, Schippers has no plans to cancel the clawback, the paper says.
Schippers is expected to announce the new deal at a meeting of the family doctors association later on Friday.