Royal Doctors

What are the Royal Doctors?
The Royal Doctors are a network of the best medical specialists in the world.  Founded in 2004.
The administrative head office is located in Brussels. Call: 0032 2 7 190 300
The CEO of Royal Doctors is Joris Vanvinckenroye,Belgium, Vlerick Management School.

What is the mission of the Royal Doctors?
“Connecting People to the Best Care”
Our aim is to offer our patients fast, personal and high quality health care. We make a clear distinction between prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
This is what makes the Royal Doctors objective and independent.

How do the Royal Doctors select their doctors?
The Royal Hospitals operate strict and meticulous procedures for selecting doctors with whom they choose to collaborate. We only use the most outstanding medical experts for each discipline. They offer the best skills in the field of diagnosis and performing medical or surgical interventions.
That is also why we ask medical associations to give careful thought to who they consider to be the top doctor in a particular specialist field.
In addition, we use an independent database which records the world’s best doctors categorised by medical discipline. This database is updated every year on the basis of a Peer-to-Peer Review.
Finally, there are also clinical studies showing which doctors achieved the best intervention results for a particular condition.
We set high store by the concept “Evidence-based Medecine” .
The doctors which the Royal Doctors call upon are considered by their colleagues worldwide to be the top in their specific discipline.

Can doctors buy into the Royal Doctors?
No. Never !

Is a doctor unconditionally connected to the Royal Doctors?
As soon as a doctor is a member of the Royal Doctors, his or her services will be assessed on an on-going basis.
As soon as a doctor no longer meets the required quality standards of the Royal Doctors, we immediately cease our collaboration with him or her.

How large is the network of physicians whose services are used by Royal Doctors?
Check up: 120 people involved
For the Second Opinion Service: 400 specialists in 20 different countries
For the Treatment Service: 70 centres worldwide, about 400 doctors

Which services do we offer?
Preventive programme: Check up Service
Diagnosis programme: Second Opinion Service
Treatment programme: Treatment Service

Why do people opt for the Royal Doctors?
Our clients choose us because of:

1. The quality of our medical service
2. Our open communication
3. The objectivity of our organisation
4. The independence of the doctors
5. Our fast service
6. Collaboration with insurance companies for reimbursment of the main costs

Who uses the services of the Royal Doctors?

1. Referring doctors on behalf of their patients.
2. Insurance companies on behalf of their members.
3. Patients themselves are also entitled to make use of our services.

How do the Royal Doctors maintain their objectivity?
We maintain our objectivity:

• By making use of an independent method to define our range of services.
• By means of a permanent assessment system of our collaborating doctors and our stringent quality criteria.

What are the quality criteria of the Royal Doctors?
Our quality criteria are based on 4 factors:
Clinical data from the doctor and his team
Service facilities of the centre
Waiting times of less than 5 days for a second opinion or a treatment
Quality of the after-care

How does it benefit a local doctor to collaborate with the Royal Hospitals?
Check Up: The doctor can allow his patient to undergo a fast and completely independent examination. On that very same day, the referring doctor will receive a complete report on the patient’s health condition.

Second Opinion: By collaborating with the Doctors, the local doctor has the opportunity of entering into discussion with the best doctors in a specific specialist field.
The referring doctor receives an answer from the Doctors within 5 days and can thus adjust or continue treatment.

Treatment Service: By referring a patient to a Royal Doctors treatment centre, the doctor can be certain that his patient will receive the very best treatment.