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 Vitamin D Life: 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

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Vitamin D Life: Can get 50,000 IU Vitamin D anywhere on the globe

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6 studies of giving Vitamin D

• Infants have gotten free 400 IU of vitamin D in Turkey since 2005, More for longer would be even better – Feb 2022

• Romania joins Turkey in giving free Vitamin D to all infants – 2018

• Employers gain 10 dollars in productivity for every dollar spent on giving Vitamin D for free

• US Food stamps program being asked to add free Vitamin D - June 2023

• Employers should give night shift workers free vitamin D – GMB Union June 2019

• All pregnant women in Scotland to get free vitamin D - April 2017

Vitamin D Life: Vitamin D has been found to be cost-effective by many studies