At Derks & Derks, we have been successfully serving the healthcare sector for over 20 years. We focus on senior professionals, management and executive teams, offering Recruitment & Selection, Secondment & Interim services, and development programmes for individuals and teams.

From our unique position at the intersection of healthcare providers, industry, government and health insurers, we take a broader view, look further ahead and see more. By always looking beyond silos and recognising that progress can only be made by bringing all parties together, we established our Healthcare Executive Education programme, the Masterclass NieuweZorg, in 2011. Since 2023, we have also been offering the Masterclass Health Contracting, a successful, alternative approach to health contracting, based on collaboration and trust.

We are at the heart of the healthcare landscape and are closely involved in the key challenge of optimising the quality, accessibility and affordability of our healthcare. Healthcare buyers and sellers have an important role to play in this. In fact, they are the gateway to sensible healthcare. We believe that the focus in healthcare procurement and sales should shift more towards the public interest. In doing so, not only the financial perspective, but also the quality and accessibility perspectives must be given a more prominent place on the agenda.

Current situation
The complex process of healthcare contracting does not always run smoothly. The conclusion of healthcare contracts should, through successful and transparent contracting, make an essential contribution to cost control in healthcare. The role of healthcare buyers and sellers is therefore decisive in this process. We are convinced that these professionals can achieve more than is currently the case. By working on the basis of trust, through continuous training and further education, and by building personal relationships and continuing to meet one another within a network. This serves the public interest and also reduces staff turnover within this group.

Upgrading healthcare procurement and sales
The vision of long-term, successful and transparent contracting requires support. This can be achieved by giving healthcare procurers and suppliers greater authority and influence, by bringing them together, by sharing best practices, and by organising a network of colleagues.

Together with other expert market players, we are giving healthcare procurement and sales a valuable upgrade: our Masterclass Health Contracting training programme promises to make a major contribution to a more efficient, transparent and socially responsible distribution of the €110 billion we spend on healthcare each year. We offer an eight-day course on the core values of modern healthcare contracting. Speakers and lecturers are highly regarded experts from both the practical and academic fields.

The networking platform brings together participants from all relevant sectors: Wlz, Wmo, Zvw and the Youth Act. Participants come from local authorities, care administration offices, insurers, hospitals, mental health institutions, care homes, central government bodies, etc. We believe in combining substantive and infotainment sessions, case studies and best practices.

Masterclass Health Contracting: cooperating for appropriate healthcare? Deal!
More information: www.healthcontracting.nl