The purpose of medical disciplinary law is to preserve and improve the quality of healthcare. However, the judicial bodies that oversee the medical professions have been struggeling for some time now with so-called ‘trifling complaints’: complaints that bear little to no relation to the quality of the provided healthcare, are therefore no addition to quality control and improvement of healthcare. According to Prof. Johan Legemaate, the amount of trifling complaints can be reduced by limiting the legal grounds for complaints.