Future-Proof Healthcare Systems: From Ambition to Action

When:Fr 26-06-2026 09:00 - 17:15Where:Academy building, Broerstraat 5, 9712 CP, Groningen

Please note: venue change

This event will take place at the Academy Building instead of House of Connections.

There are hundreds of initiatives in the Netherlands that aim to make healthcare future-proof. They are inventive, they are driven and almost all of them disappear once the funding ends. Meanwhile, the demand for care continues to rise, complexity increases, and the labour market is under growing strain. Everyone feels the urgency. Yet no one breaks the pattern.

On Friday 26 June, we are not coming together to state this once again.
We are coming together to set the course.

Programme

08:30	Reception with coffee and tea
09:00	Opening by host Matthijs van der Linde
09:15	The state of the Netherlands: where do we stand now? What lies beneath the surface? Erik Buskens (Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health): Integrated care as a prerequisite for future sustainability — what do we really know? Isabelle van de Ven and Pim Valentijn (theme: Future Proof Healthcare Systems): What is happening in the Netherlands? Lessons from integrated care initiatives Thomas Plochg (Federatie voor Gezondheid): From analysis to action: which courses of action truly work? How current funding logics hinder integrated care and what is needed to break through them
10:45	Break
11:15	Josine van ’t Klooster (Menzis): Financing perspective: reimbursement as a systemic bottleneck. From problem analysis to actionable solutions
12:00	Werner Zuurbier (RSO GERRIT): Data as an accelerator for integrated collaboration
12:45	Introduction to thematic discussion tables by Matthijs van der Linde
13:00	Lunch and networking
14:15	Thematic discussion tables: help shape the national and regional agenda
15:45	Break
16:00	Plenary synthesis: from table outcomes to actionable steps
16:30	Closing Remarks by Matthijs van der Linde
16:30	Drinks and networking

Why should you attend?

You will get an honest overview of what is happening nationally—and what is structurally going wrong.
You will uncover the deeper causes of “pilotitis”: why promising initiatives disappear without leaving a trace.
You will leave the day with concrete tools for your organisation, network, or policy table.
You will directly contribute to a shared course of action—an agenda that goes beyond intentions.
You will build relationships with the people who can truly make a difference.