Daniëlle JansenMinister of Health, Welfare and Sport
Born on 29 September 1970 in Tollebeek
Party: New Social Contract (NSC)
Good care means everyone, regardless of their background or income, having access to the right support. By listening to what people need, working closely with professionals and investing in our healthcare workers, we can build a healthy society together.
Accessible and affordable care, including:
Health insurance excess
Care avoidance
Healthcare benefit
Co-payment
Medicines
Medical devices
Labour market, including:
Drastically reducing time spent on paperwork
Labour-saving care
Innovation, medical technology, digitalisation, IT, AI, electronic patient records
Professional training
Tackling violence against health professionals
Healthcare Professions Act and Top Incomes (Standardisation) Act
Health Insurance Act, including:
Cooperation between primary healthcare providers
Care package management
General practitioner care
Dental care
Emergency care, regions, medical care landscape
Pregnancy and childbirth
Hospital care and regional hospitals
Infectious disease control
Housing for the elderly and people with a disability
General ministerial tasks, including:
Ownership tasks for various parts of the ministry organisation
Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ)
Good governance, regularity and fraud prevention
Comprehensive Healthcare Agreement, appropriate care and proven effectiveness
19 June 2025
Appointed Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Schoof government
6 December 2023 – 19 June 2025
Member of the House of Representatives for NSC; party spokesperson on healthcare; responsible for prevention and health promotion, curative care, affordability of care
September 2021 – December 2023
Programme leader, ‘organisation and evaluation of care in the youth care system’, Accare and UMCG
August 2011 – September 2021
Senior lecturer at the Primary Healthcare and Long-term Care Department; senior lecturer at the Health Sciences Department, UMCG
September 2017 – October 2021
Coordinator, Obstetrics Department, UMCG
May 2014 – October 2021
Senior staff member, Learning Community Global Health, UMCG
March 2006 – August 2011
Researcher, UMCG
August 2005 – October 2011
Senior lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen
22 March 2006
PhD degree (medical sciences), University of Groningen
1993 – 1996
Sociology, University of Groningen
1989 – 1993
Nursing, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen
Board member, NSC parliamentary assistance foundation
