Medical Certificate in Eindhoven: Online, Same-Day from €34.99

No. The assessment is completed online and reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in the Netherlands, so where you are in the country makes no difference to the process or the price. This page exists because people search for their own city.

Generally, no. Dutch sick leave normally starts with a ziekmelding — reporting sick directly to your employer under their own sickness policy — and for longer absences your employer engages an independent company doctor, the bedrijfsarts, rather than asking you for a certificate. A certificate from us fits specific situations outside that process, such as an internationally operating employer's own documentation request, not standard short-term sick leave.

Our certificate is €34.99 flat, including the doctor's review, the PDF and its verification reference. A typical private doctor visit sought for these situations in the Netherlands commonly falls in the €50-€120 range. It isn't a substitute for care — if you need to be examined or treated, see a doctor in person.

Yes, fit-to-fly is one of the certificate types we assess. Airline requirements differ, and they depend on how recent your surgery, illness or pregnancy stage is, so check the airline's stated policy and tell us what it asks for.

Same day, usually within 30 minutes of the doctor approving your case during business hours. Some cases take longer where the doctor needs more information from you before deciding.

Frequently yes, because an overseas head office is usually applying its own HR policy rather than Dutch rules, and an independent doctor's written confirmation is what that policy asks for. We can't promise acceptance on any particular company's behalf, and the sensible order is to ask them what they need before ordering. Send us their wording — whether they want confirmation of unfitness for a period, fitness to resume, or fitness to travel — so the certificate matches it. Each certificate carries a verification reference they can check, which is usually what a sceptical HR team wants.

Yes, that's the type. Sports Fitness is a doctor's written confirmation of fitness to take part, which is what gym and club clearance requests are normally after — most often where the training is intense or the sport involves contact. Describe the activity and whatever the gym's form specifically asks about, since clearance for a general strength programme and clearance for competitive contact sport aren't the same question. Where a federation requires a formal sportmedisch onderzoek instead, only a sportarts at a sports medical centre can carry that out.

Remote assessment is established practice, and Dutch professional guidance is far more concerned with who assesses you than with whether they did it in a room. The KNMG's position is that declarations should come from an independent doctor rather than your treating physician — which is exactly why your own huisarts turns these requests down. The reviewing doctor is licensed nationally, works from the information you provide, and can come back with questions or decline to issue at all. What a remote assessment cannot do is stand in for a physical examination where one is genuinely warranted: symptoms that need looking at need a doctor in the room, and this is not that.

€34.99, covering the doctor's review, the issued PDF and its verification reference, with no separate fee for the assessment itself. That's the price for all six types — Sick Leave, Sports Fitness, General Fitness, Fit to Fly, Return to Work and General Medical — and it's identical across the Netherlands, so an Eindhoven address makes no difference. It isn't claimable against Dutch health insurance and doesn't count towards your eigen risico, since it sits outside the basisverzekering. If what you actually need is care rather than a document, a huisarts consultation is covered and exempt from the deductible.

Usually, if you submit while review is still running during business hours — approved cases typically produce the PDF within about thirty minutes. The risk with a late Friday submission is a case where the doctor comes back with questions, because then the timing depends on how fast you answer, and an unanswered query can sit over the weekend. If the deadline is Monday morning, Friday morning is a much safer submission than Friday at five. Give complete information first time to reduce the chance of a follow-up question.