Against the background of an increasing demand for care, scarce resources, and a suboptimal quality of health care, the Redesigning Health Care (RHC) programme produced important information to support decision-making by stakeholders in health care.
For example, the programme supported decision-making by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports on several topics. Examples of these are: the feasibility of a web-based registry of donors, the introduction of Nurse Practitioners in primary care, and the effectiveness of chronic care management programmes. The latter research is conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), and the Trimbos Institute.
Other areas to which the programme significantly contributed are: performance measurement in mental health care, the evaluation of health policy in a European context, assessment of nurse delivered care, assessment of telemonitoring, and the evaluation of chronic care management. Based on these studies, multiple reports and papers were published, presentations at local, national and international meetings were given, and teaching activities were performed. For example, researchers from the RHC programme supervised three students who performed their Master thesis at the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, USA.