News item | 25-05-2023 | 10:50
Renewing the healthcare system is necessary to make healthcare future-proof. As an important (part of the) solution to this, all signatories of the Integrated Care Agreement (IZA) are fully committed, and in the breadth of all aspects and areas of care, to appropriate care. Appropriate care is care that has been proven to be effective and that adds value, that is created together with the care provider and patient and that focuses more on health than on illness.
In the past period, Jan Kremer has served as a special envoy Appropriate care designed the framework for Appropriate Care at the Zorginstituut and stimulated and concretized the movement towards this care.
In the IZA, the parties have chosen the Appropriate Care framework as a guideline. This means that the movement towards appropriate care is ready for the next phase. From the directing role of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, VWS will be the client and facilitator of the Appropriate Care Envoy.
The mission of the Special Envoy is to encourage movement towards appropriate care. This is done primarily by the to connect of policy and practice regarding appropriate care. Secondly, the special envoy will inform the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to advise about the policy effort to realize appropriate care, mainly fed by the findings of the Special Envoy in practice.
Jan Kremer is professor of care and society at Radboud university medical center. He has broad experience in healthcare as a gynaecologist, consultant and supervisor. He was, among other things, chairman of the Quality Council of the Healthcare Institute and a member of the Council for Public Health & Society (RVS).