BIG Register: Dutch Healthcare Professional Competency Registry

The BIG register is a public database of healthcare professionals in the Netherlands, mandated by the BIG Act. It contains over 350,000 registered providers and is maintained by the CIBG, an implementing organization of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The register aims to provide clarity about the competence of healthcare providers.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of healthcare professionals based on the national registry.
• Verify professional credentials and competencies based on the public register.
• Study trends in healthcare workforce registration over time based on the large-scale database.

Strengths

• Contains over 350,000 records of healthcare providers.
• Data is sourced from an official government implementing organization (CIBG).
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

CIBG (implementing organization of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Netherlands)

Collection Method

Official national registry mandated by the BIG Act (Law on the Professions in Individual Health Care).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands