News - Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
59 news items of Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Schippers: ‘Better allocation of roles and responsibilities between health ministry and Dutch Healthcare Authority’
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport will itself determine healthcare financing policy in future. The Dutch Healthcare ...
Government supports call for medical volunteers to combat Ebola
On 1 October 2014, in support of the call by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for medical staff to support the Ebola clinics in ...
Speech Daphne Deckers on AMR conference
Netherlands organizes global ministerial conference on antimicrobial resistance
The Government of the Netherlands, in response to a request by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), is hosting a ...
National Prevention Programme to kick off in February 2014
'Health matters'. That’s the title of a new National Prevention Programme proposed by Health Minister Edith Schippers and State ...
Cabinet approves long-term e-mental health funding
The cabinet has agreed to long-term funding of anonymous e-mental health, based on a proposal by the Minister of Health, Welfare ...
First results of horsemeat investigation
The vast majority of the controls carried out by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (Nederlandse Voedsel - en ...
Major investigation into use and trade of horsemeat
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit - NVWA) is conducting a major ...
State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport: stepping up efforts to tackle female genital mutilation
Current efforts to tackle the practice of female genital mutilation, with effective information and the threat of severe ...
The responsible use of medicines, setting policies for better and cost-effective healthcare
Minister Edith Schippers held a Ministers Summit on 3 October 2012 on The responsible use of medicines, setting policies for ...