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Wil Toenders<br />

Wil Toenders<br />

Former secretary <strong>of</strong> Dutch Medicines Reimbursement<br />

Advice Committee, now independent<br />

consultant in healthcare and medicines reimbursement<br />

issues.<br />

Education: graduated as a pharmacist with a<br />

subsidiary in general practice.<br />

Work experience: after practising in a pharmacy<br />

in a healthcare centre in Amsterdam,<br />

he became editor <strong>of</strong> the Dutch Drug Bulletin in<br />

1990 and was General Secretary <strong>of</strong> the International<br />

Society <strong>of</strong> Drug Bulletins from 1996.<br />

In 1999 he joined the Dutch Healthcare Insurance<br />

Board as a pharmaceutical adviser. From<br />

2004 to 2009 he was secretary <strong>of</strong> the Dutch<br />

Medicines Reimbursement Advice Committee,<br />

the independent expert committee responsible<br />

for advising the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health on the reimbursement<br />

<strong>of</strong> medicines.<br />

Present role: on 1st January 2009 he started<br />

his own independent consultancy company<br />

ToendersdeGroot, which advises on healthcare<br />

and medicines reimbursement issues. Among<br />

the activities are: participation in scientific advisory<br />

boards, advising on strategic issues, advising<br />

on the design <strong>of</strong> clinical trials, doing reimbursement<br />

feasibility studies and preparing<br />

reimbursement dossiers.<br />

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