How to Save the NHS in 1000 Days: Adopting a Dutch-style social
insurance model for healthcare sets out a clear and
practical roadmap for implementing a new universal healthcare
system in England, modelled on the world leading Dutch social
insurance model. This builds on the recommendations Policy
Exchange made in our 2025 report The NHS – a Suitable Case for
Treatment?.
Policy Exchange's proposed reforms are designed to secure the
future of the healthcare system in England, protecting the
aspects of it which people value most, such as being available to
all on the basis of need, while creating a far more responsive
system which puts patients in control and delivers better
healthcare at a sustainable cost.
The report includes a Foreword from the architect of the
Netherlands healthcare system, former Netherlands Minister of
Health, Welfare and Sport Hans Hoogervorst.
In his Foreword to the report the architect of the Dutch
healthcare system, former Netherlands Minister of Health, Welfare
and Sport Hans Hoogervorst said:
“It is high time for a serious conversation about the future
of healthcare provision in the UK.
“That is why I very much welcome this excellent paper from
Policy Exchange setting out a practical, realistic and much
needed Roadmap for reforming this country's healthcare
system.
“Our experience in the Netherlands was that you can only
achieve sustained improvements in health outcomes and value for
money by getting the system right, making sure the incentives
work and putting patients in control.
“The result of the changes we made the
Netherlands now has one of the better healthcare systems in the
world. New providers have entered the system, resources are
better targeted and more efficiently used, patients get seen
sooner and are provided with great treatments over which they
have more choice.”
Read the report here:
https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/How-to-Save-the-NHS-in-1000-Days.pdf
