Tasks

The primary task of ZN is to promote the interests of its members. This refers not only to support and other services for members, such as the provision of information and PR, but also to conducting negotiations and representing members in regulatary bodies.

ZN was formed in 1995 following a merger of the VNZ (Association of Dutch Statutory Health Insurers) and the KLOZ (Contact body for the national organisations of private health insurance funds). Since the merger, ZN has devoted much attention to the role of discussion partner in matters concerning the health service, in meetings with representatives of the State, the national organisations of health providers, and the patient/consumer associations. ZN plays an active role in the national debate on the structuring of the healthcare insurance system, the supply of care facilities and the quality of these facilities. The organisation is, furthermore, playing an increasingly important role on the international level.