Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport

	Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport; - VWS -
State level	national level
Position of the authority	supreme authority
Consist	since 1982
Headquarters	The hague
household	EUR 89.86 billion (2019)
Authority management	Hugo de Jonge ( CDA )
Website	rijksoverheid.nl

Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, The Hague

The Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (short: VWS , German: Ministry for Health, Common Welfare and Sport ) is a Dutch ministry .

This ministry is primarily responsible for public health . This applies to the areas of hospitals, pharmaceuticals, health costs (see also: health insurance in the Netherlands ) and general practitioners. Furthermore, the ministry is responsible for preventive health care and food safety . Welfare issues such as care for the elderly, youth policy, socio-cultural work, addiction care and social services are also part of the scope of duties. The ministry is also responsible for sports policy.

history

The Ministry was established in 1982 as the Ministry for the Common Good, Health and Culture (Ministerie van Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Cultuur, short: WVC), a merger of subdivisions of the Ministries for Culture, Recreation and Social Work (Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, short : CRM) and for health and environmental hygiene (Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiëne, or Vomil for short).

In 1994 the area of cultural policy shifted to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ( Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap ), so that the current name was adopted. The headquarters are located together with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor ( Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werk Genealogieheid ) in the Castalia building in The Hague . Until 1998 it was located in the office building called “Hoogvoorde” in Rijswijk .

management

Since October 26, 2017, the responsible minister is Hugo de Jonge ( CDA ). He replaced Edith Schippers ( VVD ). The State Secretary responsible here has been Paul Blokhuis ( CU ) since 2017 . He is the successor to Martin van Rijn ( PvdA ).

The Ministry of VWS has different subdivisions:

Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM)
Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ)
College ter Beoordeling van Geneesmiddelen (CBG)
CIBG (Centraal Informatiepunt Beroepen Gezondheidszorg)

Web links

official website

Individual evidence

↑ Visuele begroting: Jaarverslag 2019. Ministerie van Financiën (Ministry of Finance), accessed on May 29, 2020 (Dutch).
↑ Hoe Vertaal ik de name van de ministeries? In: Rijksoverheid.nl. Ministerie van Algemene Zaken , accessed May 30, 2020 (Dutch).
↑ Geschiedenis VWS op rijksoverheid.nl
↑ In the Netherlands, state secretaries - as in Austria, or as in Bavaria - are politicians who oversee a division of a ministry and belong to the cabinet. In some cases they also look after areas that do not fall within the competence of the higher-level minister.

[1] Visuele begroting: Jaarverslag 2019. Ministerie van Financiën (Ministry of Finance), accessed on May 29, 2020 (Dutch).

[2] Hoe Vertaal ik de name van de ministeries? In: Rijksoverheid.nl. Ministerie van Algemene Zaken , accessed May 30, 2020 (Dutch).

[3] Geschiedenis VWS op rijksoverheid.nl

[4] In the Netherlands, state secretaries - as in Austria, or as in Bavaria - are politicians who oversee a division of a ministry and belong to the cabinet. In some cases they also look after areas that do not fall within the competence of the higher-level minister.