The Dutch health care sector delivers good value for money measured by international standards. Despite this, not a day passes without reports in media of problems in the health care sector.

Health care is one of the big political issues in the Netherlands, and the Dutch government is now engaged on thoroughgoing reform of the health sector to cope with demographic changes, the changing profile of the health care user and the impact of technological innovation.

This CNE Health lunchtime seminar will provide an inside, informed view of the state of Dutch healthcare and what reforms are to come .

Thursday, 15 April 2004 Renaissance Hotel Rue du Parnasse 19, Brussels 12:30 -13:15 Cocktails 13:15-14:30 Lecture, Discussion, Lunch If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to our Events Administator. Please specify any dietary restrictions for the menu. Click here for a printable map to the Renaissance.

Gerrold Verhoeks serves as an economic advisor for The Edmund Burke Foudation, the Netherlands think tank. The Burke Foundation seeks to educate students, promote conservative philosophy, develop policy proposals, change public opinion and bring together those interested in conservatism in The Netherlands.

Before graduating in public administration at Leiden University, he worked at the local government as an advisor on public safety affairs. After graduating he followed a post-graduate programme at The Erasmus University in Rotterdam dedicated to financial economic affairs.

Since 2003 he has worked as a policy advisor on market oriented reforms of the health care sector at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports in The Netherlands .

For further information, please email the Events Administator.