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Client Council

The Client Council represents the common interests of the clients of the Drie Meren, Floriande, and Overbos health centers and the GP Emergency Post. 

The clients' council identifies bottlenecks and proposes solutions from the clients' perspective. In this way, the clients' council contributes to improving the quality of care provision. The clients' council may provide the director of the SGH with solicited and unsolicited advice on matters that directly concern the clients.

How does the clients' council work?

The Client Council meets with the Director and the Quality Officer of the SGH four times a year. During these meetings, matters that are going well and areas for improvement are discussed. The annual quality report and the annual plan are also discussed. Furthermore, the Client Council meets once a year with a representative of the Supervisory Board. The Client Council is involved in the appointment of members of the Supervisory Board.

Who are the members of the client council?

The clients' council consists of a minimum of three and a maximum of seven members. The clients' council currently consists of:

In my daily life, I am a lawyer. In addition, I teach a course on the legal aspects of healthcare provision. I am a client of the Floriande Health Centre. This is one of the health centres of the Haarlemmermeer Health Centres Foundation (SGH). When I read in the SGH newsletter that candidates were being sought for the client council, I signed up. It is rewarding to represent the interests of SGH clients and to contribute ideas on how care can be improved even further. When the previous chairperson of the client council left, I took over at the request of the other council members
 
In my daily life, I work as a project manager at a pharmaceutical company and collaborate extensively with patient organizations. Additionally, I am the mother of a daughter and a son, aged 16 and 13. I am affiliated with the Floriande Health Centre as a client. I believe it is important that affiliated clients can contribute their thoughts on various matters affecting care at the health centre, in order to improve the care provided. Furthermore, I see it as an added value that, through the client council, we can bring in the patient/client perspective, and I am happy to do so.
As a retired legal policy officer, I am now a volunteer for various organizations. For example, in recent years, on behalf of the Lung Foundation, I have provided information throughout the country to patients, politicians, and schoolchildren about the importance of clean air and the health risks of particulate matter. I am a client at the Overbos Health Center. There, I heard about vacancies on the client council and applied as a candidate. I hope to make a positive contribution to advocating for the interests of clients regarding healthcare in the region.
I have lived in Hoofddorp since 2009 and have been a client at Gezondheidscentrum Floriande since then. In June 2022, I took early retirement and now have more time for other things. Until then, I worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator in Oncology at the Spaarne Gasthuis in Hoofddorp. Prior to that, I worked as a radiodiagnostic and radiotherapeutic technician at the OLVG and the NKI-AVL in Amsterdam. Additionally, I was a practice supervisor and gave guest lectures. Alongside my training in horse and cat behavior and volunteer work for the Haarlemmermeer Tenants' Association, I would like to dedicate myself to the interests of the clients of Gezondheidscentra Haarlemmermeer. After responding to the call for candidates, I was appointed a member of the Client Council on December 15, 2022. With my experience in healthcare, I hope to make a positive contribution to this council.

Contact with the clients' council

Do you have ideas or questions for the clients' council, or would you like more information? You can contact us via email: clientenraad@gchaarlemmermeer.nl

Interested in becoming a member of the clients' council?

The clients' council still has room for a new enthusiastic member.

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Merel van Nimwegen

  • Merel van Nimwegen is a pediatric physiotherapist. She specializes in treating children with headaches, sensory processing issues, and psychosomatic complaints. Since 2025, Merel has been working on Fridays at the Paramedical Treatment Center for Headaches to treat children under the age of 14 with headaches. Additionally, she works in Heemstede: www.kinderfysio-heemstede.nl.
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Linda Pronk

  • Physiotherapist specializing in the treatment of jaw complaints, headaches, and dizziness. She is also specialized in edema therapy and psychosomatic physiotherapy.
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Veronique Huisman

  • Manual therapist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with headache complaints. She specializes in dry needling to complement the treatment of neck and headaches. Additionally, she specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of shoulder complaints.
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Tim Jongejans

  • Manual therapist specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with headache complaints. Additionally, he is pursuing scientific training at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Sciences).
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Jasper Flick

  • Manual therapist specializing in treating various forms of dizziness, including the most well-known: BPPV. He also treats patients with headaches, spine-related complaints, and sports injuries.
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Dr. René Castien

  • Manual therapist, senior researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and advisor at the Paramedical Treatment Center for Headache. Obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam based on research into the effectiveness of manual therapy for tension headache. René supervises and coordinates the collaboration on scientific research into headache between VU Amsterdam and the Paramedical Treatment Center for Headache.
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Laura de Kam

  • Manual therapist specializing in treating various forms of dizziness, including the most well-known: BPPV. She also treats patients with neck complaints, with and without headaches.
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Lotte de Fockert

  • Manual therapist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with headache complaints. She specializes in dry needling of the neck, jaw, and throat muscles to complement the treatment of headache and orofacial complaints. She also treats people with shoulder complaints.
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Andreas Amons

  • Manual therapist specializing in the treatment of patients with headache complaints. At the Department of General Practice of the Amsterdam UMC, he is conducting doctoral research into the effectiveness of manual therapy for migraine.