Healthy services research. The future of health services research in The Netherlands

In response to questions from the Lower House of Parliament about the knowledge infrastructure for health sciences the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport has identified the need for an analysis by the Advisory Council on Health Research (RGO). The minister formulated two central questions: ‘... whether the knowledge infrastructure is of sufficient size and stability to properly address the questions regarding developments in the health care system now and in the future’ and ‘... whether there is a good balance between free risky innovative research and request guided research’. For both questions he requested ‘... a good analysis and a convincing answer’ by the RGO.