Information for the press
The contact details below for the press officers at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport are intended for members of the media only. If you are not a journalist, please use the contact form or phone 1400 (Monday to Friday, 8.00 to 20.00). If you are calling from outside the Netherlands, please dial +31 70 214 02 14.
Spokespersons for Jan Anthonie Bruijn, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
Mischa Stubenitsky
M: +31 (0)6 24 51 23 63
E: mischastub@minvws.nl
- Integral Healthcare Agreement (IZA)
- Innovation, digitalisation, IT, AI, electronic patient records
- Labour market, including:
- Labour-saving care
- Education of healthcare professionals
- Healthcare Professions Act
Karim Mostafi
Absent on Fridays
M: +31 (0)6 15 68 38 22
E: k.mostafi@minvws.nl
- Health insurance
- Medicines and medical technology
- Infectious disease control
- International affairs
Sandra in 't Groen
M: +31 (0)6 11 58 53 28
E: sa.it.groen@minvws.nl
- Emergency care, medical care landscape
- General practitioner care
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Medical specialist practices
- Hospital care and regional hospitals
- Dental care
- Resilience to crises
- Good governance, regularity and fraud prevention
Vera van Aller
M: +31 (0)6 11 79 70 64
E: ve.v.aller@minvws.nl
- Interview requests Minister Bruijn
- Post-infectious syndromes, long-COVID, ME/CFS, Q fever, Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome)
- COVID-19 and coordination of COVID-19 policy accountability process within the ministry and central government wide
Spokespersons for Nicki Pouw-Verweij, Minister for Long-term and Social Care
Emilie Westerouen van Meeteren
M: +31 (0)6 11 91 97 81
E: emilie.wvm@minvws.nl
- Long-term Care Act and informal care
- Long-term care: elderly care (nursing homes and residential care), disability care
- Home care nursing
- Policy on quality of care
- Patient and client organisations
Estelle Cool
M: +31 (0)6 29 63 92 52
E: ec.cool@minvws.nl
- Social Support Act
- Homeless shelter services, supported housing
- Addiction care
- Palliative care
Wietse Schooltink
M: +31 (0)6 15 42 20 68
E: w.schooltink@minvws.nl
- Interview requests Minister Pouw-Verweij
- Personal budget (PGB)
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
- Allied health care
Spokespersons for Judith Tielen, Minister for Youth, Prevention and Sport
Ruben van Dorssen
M: +31 (0)6 15 03 50 04
E: ruben.vandorssen@minvws.nl
- Prevention (including vaccinations, population screening) and health promotion
- Municipal health services (implementation of national vaccination programme, youth healthcare and sexual health)
- Caribbean Netherlands (domain of health, welfare and sport)
Roos Schelberg
M: +31 (0)6 15 03 82 24
E: rm.schelberg@minvws.nl
- Youth care
- Drug prevention
- Sustainable healthcare system
- Women’s Health
Fabian Paardekooper
M: +31 (0)6 54 38 32 66
E: fa.paardekooper@minvws.nl
- Sport
- Mental healthcare
- Suicide prevention
Tim Bennebroek
Absent on Wednesdays
M: +31 (0)6 44 93 65 66
E: tg.bennebroek@minvws.nl
- Interview requests Minister Tielen
- War victims and commemoration of Second World War
- Medical ethical issues
- Health protection: food and consumer product safety, and monitoring of this by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA)
Corporate spokespersons
Ruben van Dorssen
M: +31 (0)6 15 03 50 04
E: ruben.vandorssen@minvws.nl