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Integral Care Agreement (IZA)

IIn September 2022 the NFU signed the Integral Care Agreement (IZA) together with a wide range of representatives from the healthcare sector, the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. We are jointly committed to the important societal challenge of keeping good-quality healthcare affordable and accessible, now and in the future. This will require the healthcare sector to change: less focus on disease and treatment and more commitment to health and what the individual is capable of.

Digitalisation and data exchange

Prevention

Regional collaboration

New tool supports research into rare diseases

The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU) and Elsevier recently launched a new tool: the ‘Rare Disease Monitor’.

Cao news 2021

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Sustainability

The climate crisis is currently the greatest threat to public health. The entire world agrees on this point. Climate change and environmental pollution are increasingly leading to more and other health care demands, like the increase in infectious diseases, heat stress, mental problems, allergies, lung disorders, cardiovascular diseases and neurological diseases. New diseases are also appearing that have been transmitted from animals to humans, and ‘tropical diseases’ are found in other parts of the world than the tropics. This puts more pressure on the healthcare sector and increases the costs. The necessity for sustainability is greater than ever

Prevention

Good care not only means healing illness, it involves preventing illness as well. By investing now in effective prevention, umcs are creating a future health gain. We are making Dutch people healthier, plus healthcare remains affordable and accessible. How are the umcs working on preventing diseases?

Cao news 2020