Medical Certificate in Groningen: 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 is the right document for specific situations outside that process, such as a university's own request or supporting a return-to-work conversation, 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.

It can support one, but the university sets its own evidence requirements and may ask for a specific form or wording. Check what your department requires first, and tell us who the certificate is for so the wording can be matched to the request.

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.

Not with the absence itself. Healthcare employers run the same process as everyone else: you report sick to your employer, and for a longer absence the bedrijfsarts produces a probleemanalyse by around week six, followed by a plan van aanpak within two weeks and reviews roughly every six weeks. Nothing you buy feeds into that or speeds it up, and your employer isn't entitled to your diagnosis in any case. If a certificate would help with something outside work — a course, a club, an insurance claim, travel — that's a different and genuine use.

Often yes, and it's one of the more common reasons students here order one. A home institution or overseas insurer is applying its own rules, and an independent doctor's written confirmation is usually what those rules describe. Check what your faculty's absence or mitigating-circumstances procedure actually specifies first, because some want a named form or a particular phrase — then say in your submission which body has asked and in what terms. If they require a form completed by the doctor treating you, that's a different document, and we'll tell you rather than issue something unusable.

No. It's €34.99 wherever you are, for any of the six types, and that figure covers the assessment, the issued document and the code used to verify it. Distance from the Randstad affects plenty of things in Dutch life — specialist travel times, appointment availability — but not this, because the reviewing doctor is licensed nationally and nothing here is geographic. Nor is it reimbursed by your zorgverzekering or set against your eigen risico, since it sits outside the basisverzekering.

Doctor review runs during business hours, so a Saturday submission is normally picked up when review resumes rather than that afternoon. Once a case is approved the PDF usually follows within about half an hour, so the delay is in reaching the front of the queue rather than in producing the document. If you have a Monday deadline, submitting over the weekend is still worth doing — it just means the review, not the wait, is what determines the timing. Cases needing follow-up questions take longer again.

Possibly, and it's worth understanding why so it doesn't happen twice. For ordinary Dutch sick leave, an employer refusing a certificate is not being obstructive: the process genuinely runs through your ziekmelding and the bedrijfsarts, and no certificate is the operative document, so that particular purchase was never going to work. Ask them in writing what they do require — an internal form, a bedrijfsarts referral, or nothing at all beyond your ziekmelding. Where a certificate reliably does work is with the bodies that asked for one in the first place: clubs, courses, insurers, airlines and employers or institutions outside the Dutch system.