Sweden has been undergoing important changes in its healthcare system, most notably in Stockholm. After a little more than a decade of political quarrel the "Stockholm model" has grown to become the likely national standard in Sweden, combining public funding with consumer choice, market mechanisms and provider pluralism. The healthcare consumer will be the player of tomorrow, changing the focus from organisation to outcome.

Richard Miniter will modeate the event.

Date Tuesday 01 April 2003 18h30-22h00 Location Fatboys Sports Bar 5 Place Luxembourg Brussels

From 1995 to 1999, Johan Hjertqvist worked on the ideas behind the Stockholm system, aiming at the creation of new arenas to bring private healthcare entrepreneurs, contractors and the government together to strengthen the impact of market pluralism. Since 1999 he has led a four year project analysing the transformation of healthcare in Stockholm in three books. Mr Hjertqvist has acted as an adviser to the Greater Stockholm Council, specialising in market infrastructures where purchasers and providers can meet. He was also a founding member of the Timbro Policy Group, for long the sole think tank in Sweden (and still the most influential). >From 1991 to 1994 he was a deputy mayor in his hometown of Tyresö, outside Stockholm. Since 2001 he has been the director of the Timbro Health Policy Unit (Stockholm, Brussels).

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