Dutch healthcare system needs simplifying, less competition: RVS

The Dutch council for health and society (RVS) is recommending a radical overhaul of the way healthcare is organised, saying the current system is no longer providing the necessary care for an increasing number of people. “On paper we have good, accessible healthcare but in practice we don’t,” RVS chairwoman Jet Bussemaker told the NRC. “We have to prevent things from seizing up altogether.” Some of the issues highlighted by the council are well known – there is a major...