Fleur AgemaMinister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Deputy Prime Minister
Born on 16 September 1976 in Purmerend
Party: Freedom Party (PVV)
Healthcare depends on people. We’re facing a catastrophic shortage of staff. And if we don’t do something about that now, we’re going to lose. I don’t just want to score, I want to win.
Accessible and affordable care, including:
Health insurance excess
Care avoidance
Healthcare benefit
Co-payment
Medicines
Medical devices
Labour market, including:
Drastically reducing time spent on paperwork
Labour-saving care
Innovation, medical technology, digitalisation, IT, AI, electronic patient records
Professional training
Tackling violence against health professionals
Healthcare Professions Act and Top Incomes (Standardisation) Act
Health Insurance Act, including:
Cooperation between primary healthcare providers
Care package management
General practitioner care
Dental care
Emergency care, regions, medical care landscape
Pregnancy and childbirth
Hospital care and regional hospitals
Infectious disease control
Housing for the elderly and people with a disability
General ministerial tasks, including:
Ownership tasks for various parts of the ministry organisation
Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ)
Good governance, regularity and fraud prevention
Comprehensive Healthcare Agreement, appropriate care and proven effectiveness
2 July 2024
Appointed Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Schoof government
30 November 2006 – 2 July 2024
Member of the House of Representatives for the PVV (except during maternity leave); deputy parliamentary party leader (except during maternity leave and subsequent period)
March 2003 – March 2007
Member of North Holland provincial council
September 1999 – September 2003
Designer and project manager at an architecture firm
June 1994 – September 1999
Skipper on a sailing yacht, hospitality (student jobs)
2008
Master Trainer course
2006
NEI Coach course
2004
MA, Open University / MFA, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (completed in 2004)
2000 – 2001
MA in Architecture, Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam
2000
Mechanics, building physics and detailing, Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam (completed in 2000)
1999
BA, AKI Academy of Art & Design, Enschede (completed in 1999)
