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The Stockholm Network's Health and Welfare Program was established at the end of 2005. The programme has the following key aims and objectives:

  • To provide a comprehensive resource on European think tank initiatives in the field of Health and Welfare
  • To promote competition and choice in healthcare, through reform of European health systems and markets;
  • To promote more flexible labour markets in Europe
  • To promote market oriented reform of Europe's failing pensions systems


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Public Finance
Norse Nirvana
Date: 07 April 2006
Sweden shows the way on healthcare reform
The Times
A little knowledge can be a good thing
Date: 03 April 2006
Too many people in the UK do not know their cholesterol or blood pressure levels, and could be missing out on life-saving treatments
The Guardian
The NHS Needs A Break From Further Reform
Date: 30 March 2006
Waiting times have fallen and the NHS has indeed had "the best year since it was founded". However, to dismiss the public's legitimate concerns about value for money is irresponsible. Neither an £800m deficit nor the recent cuts in services and jobs at trusts across the nation can be swept under the carpet.
Financial Times
There is something rotten in the welfare state of Europe by Martin Wolf
Date: 01 March 2006
The time has come for Europeans to ask themselves the unthinkable: can their vaunted social model endure? It is a question I have wished to avoid. But it is irresponsible to persist in doing so. Something is rotten in the state of western Europe. The continent retains valuable assets from the past. But these are showing symptoms of decay. The underlying cause seems increasingly evident: the hypertrophy of the state.
Financial Times
Advertising Restriction Represents a Health Hazard
Date: 10 January 2006
Arguing from the outset that ‘patients want more information’, Alberto Mingardi, executive director of the Istituto Bruno Leoni (Italy), and Jacob Arfwedson, associate director of the Institut Economique Molinari (France) refer to Impatient for Change and Poles Apart, two Stockholm Network polls on patients’ attitudes to healthcare provision in Europe.
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