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Belgium Luc Van Gorp is president of the Christian Mutuality, Belgium’s largest health insurance fund. In a wide-ranging recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Van Gorp expanded on some of the key themes in his 2021 book ‘Human Scale: A Plea for Imperfection’ (‘Mensenmaat: Een Pleidooi Voor Imperfectie’ in Dutch), including why innovation…

Egypt The CEO of Egypt’s Universal Health Insurance Authority (UHIA) Hossam Sadek outlines the country’s strategy to provide healthcare coverage for the entire population by 2030, explains how the system will be financed, the first results from pilot programs across a few governorates, and the main challenges ahead, including a change…

Belgium Luc Van Gorp of the Christian Mutuality Health Insurance Fund, Belgium’s largest health insurance fund, explains the organisation’s role within the Belgian healthcare system, how increased consolidation in recent years has affected its work, the current healthcare paradigm in Belgium, and why inter-stakeholder solidarity is essential to solve the healthcare…

Czech Republic Among the seven insurance funds in the Czech Republic, VZP is the largest with six million clients and the widest network of health service providers. David Šmehlík, the organisation’s deputy director, discusses its new focus on creating a patient-centric healthcare system based on quality and accessibility, the government’s primary care…

Lithuania Jūratė Sabalienė, who was appointed in September 2017 as the director of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) of the Republic of Lithuania, explains her commitment as well as the back-up strategy to ensure the access to medicines of all Lithuanian patients in a financially sustainable manner. Could you please…

Bulgaria Prof. Dr. Kamen Plochev, Dr. M. Sc., recently appointed as the governor of the National Health Insurance Fund in Bulgaria, discusses the key issues he has identified for the Bulgarian healthcare system as well as how he intends to tackle them and ultimately establish a more efficient and transparent organization.…

Taiwan Lee Po-Chang, director general of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) details his main priorities to further strengthen the country’s widely acclaimed single-payer health system, which already stands as one of the most advanced in the region, while adapting the NHIA to evolving healthcare needs and to the growing challenges…

Taiwan In an exclusive interview conducted on the 22nd of December 2016, Taiwan’s Minister of Health and Welfare Lin Tzou-yien discussed improving Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI), ensuring that Taiwanese patients can access innovative treatments, and nurturing the development of Taiwan’s thriving R&D-driven pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Minister Lin, you became…

Pharma A leading consultant to IMS and Professor at Paris Dauphine University reveals how the French healthcare system is moving in two main strategic directions: increasingly relying on private funding through complementary health insurance, and breaking with the egalitarian principle that everybody should be reimbursed to the same extent irrespective of…

pharma The General Manager of Boehringer Ingelheim South Africa talks about changes that are required to the healthcare system, with far more government/private partnerships, helping to unlock the country´s potential, why South Africa acts as a springboard for many companies looking to develop their footprint in the region, making it the…

health policy Recognized by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the top 30 think tanks in the world for health policy, FUNSALUD is committed to propose solutions to Mexico’s most important challenges with regard to healthcare. The recently appointed executive president discusses the current challenges of the sector and how the…

health insurance Taiwan’s current health minister reflects on Taiwan’s prestigious healthcare system, the problems in the first generation health insurance system that were fixed in the second, and strategies to rectify the continuous problem of price cuts. Shortly following our interview, the heretofore-Department of Health will become the Ministry of Health and…