Travel to Belgium

Just a hop across the channel

Take a cheap ferry or low cost airline for weekend break or longer.

Canals, beautiful and historic cities, WWI and WWII museums and cemeteries, bicycles, chocolate, beer and much, much more.

Where to Get Information & Refunds

The regional offices of the Auxiliary Fund for Sickness and Invalidity Insurance (Caisse auxiliaire d'assurance maladie-invalidité/Hulpas voor Ziekte-en Invaliditeitsverzekering), or the office of the Local Sickness Funds (Mutualité/ Ziekenfonds).

Auxiliary Fund offices are usually located in each provincial capital. The office for the Brabant region is at 12 Boulevard St. Lazare, St. Lazaruslaan 12, 1210 Brussels.

Doctors, Dentists & Prescriptions

Consult any doctor or dentist and show Form E111. You'll be charged for treatment. Get a receipt on the official form (Attestation de soins donnés/Getuigschrift voor verstrekte hulp).

Take a prescription to any dispensing chemist. Show your E111 and pay for the medicines. Get a receipt and ensure that your copy of the prescription is stamped.

Around 75% of the cost of treatment and approved medicines will be refunded if you apply to a Sickness Fund Office with your E111, your receipts and your copy of any prescriptions.

Hospital Treatment

Take Form E111 to a local Sickness Fund Office, which will authorise payment of a percentage of hospital costs - excluding ambulance charges which aren't refundable.

Ask them where you can get treatment at the most favourable rates.

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