On Friday January 23 the annual CaRe ‘retreat’ was held in Maastricht, in conjunction with the annual PhD student days of this research school. CaRe (The Netherlands School of Primary Care Research) was established as a research school and recognized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. The participating institutes are the School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI) of Maastricht University, the Centre for Evidence Based Practice (NCEBP) of the University Medical Centre Radboud in Nijmegen, the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research (EMGO+) of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) in Utrecht.
Last Friday the directorates of the participating partners, the Board of CaRe, and a selection of senior researchers met in Maastricht to discuss the school’s mission and strategic priorities.
Led by the CaRe director Prof. Guy Widdershoven, the participants discussed and agreed that CaRe should further develop itself as a ‘network’ and lobby organization, facilitating collaborations, exchange and joint education, master class and expertise development programs, as well as joint actions to stress and endorse the importance of public health and primary care research and development for population health in the Netherlands and abroad. Specific strategic actions were explored that will be further detailed and disseminated to pursue the CaRe agenda.
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