List of Ministers of Health of the Netherlands
List of State Secretaries for Health
ᴿᵉˢ Resigned.

List of Ministers of Health of the Netherlands

Section Title: List of State Secretaries for Health
Table Section Text: ᴿᵉˢ Resigned.

State Secretary for Social Affairs	Portfolio	Term of office	Party	Prime Minister (Cabinet)

Aat van Rhijn	Dr. Aat van Rhijn (1892–1986)	Social Security Unemployment Affairs Occupational Safety Social Services Poverty Policy	15 February 1950 – 15 September 1951	Labour Party	Willem Drees (Drees–Van Schaik • Drees I)

Piet Muntendam	Dr. Piet Muntendam (1901–1986)	Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Minority Affairs Medical Ethics Policy	1 April 1950 – 15 September 1951	Labour Party

State Secretary for Social Affairs and Health	Portfolio	Term of office	Party	Prime Minister (Cabinet)

Aat van Rhijn	Dr. Aat van Rhijn (1892–1986)	Social Security Unemployment Affairs Occupational Safety Social Services Poverty Policy	15 September 1951 – 22 December 1958	Labour Party	Willem Drees (Drees I • II • III)

Piet Muntendam	Dr. Piet Muntendam (1901–1986)	Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Minority Affairs Medical Ethics Policy	15 September 1951 – 2 September 1952	Labour Party	Willem Drees (Drees I)

Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Minority Affairs Medical Ethics Policy	2 September 1952 – 1 October 1953	Willem Drees (Drees II)

Vacant

Bauke Roolvink	Bauke Roolvink (1912–1979)	Social Security Unemployment Affairs Occupational Safety Social Services Poverty Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs	15 June 1959 – 24 July 1963	Anti-Revolutionary Party	Jan de Quay (De Quay)

José de Meijer	Dr. José de Meijer (1915–2000)	Social Security Unemployment Affairs Occupational Safety Social Services Poverty Policy Public Sector Organisations	15 November 1963 – 5 April 1967	Catholic People's Party	Victor Marijnen (Marijnen)

Jo Cals (Cals)

Jelle Zijlstra (Zijlstra)

Louis Bartels	Dr. Louis Bartels (1915–2002)	Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Medical Ethics Policy	3 September 1963 – 5 April 1967	Catholic People's Party	Victor Marijnen (Marijnen)

Jo Cals (Cals)

Jelle Zijlstra (Zijlstra)

Roelof Kruisinga	Dr. Roelof Kruisinga (1922–2012)	Social Security Occupational Safety Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Medical Ethics Policy	18 April 1967 – 6 July 1971	Christian Historical Union	Piet de Jong (De Jong)

Vacant

State Secretary for Health and Environment	Portfolio	Term of office	Party	Prime Minister (Cabinet)

Jo Hendriks	Jo Hendriks (1923–2001)	Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Environmental Policy	11 May 1973 – 19 December 1977	Catholic People's Party	Joop den Uyl (Den Uyl)

Els Veder-Smit	Els Veder-Smit (born 1921)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Medical Ethics Policy Food Policy	3 January 1978 – 11 September 1981	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Dries van Agt (Van Agt I)

Ineke Lambers-Hacquebard	Ineke Lambers-Hacquebard (1946–2014)	Environmental Policy	11 September 1981 – 4 November 1982	Democrats 66	Dries van Agt (Van Agt II • III)

State Secretary for Welfare, Health and Culture	Portfolio	Term of office	Party	Prime Minister (Cabinet)

Joop van der Reijden	Joop van der Reijden (1927–2006)	Social Services Youth Policy Elderly Policy Veteran Affairs Sport	5 November 1982 – 14 July 1986	Christian Democratic Appeal	Ruud Lubbers (Lubbers I)

Dick Dees	Dick Dees (born 1944)	Social Services Environmental Policy Sport	14 July 1986 – 7 November 1989	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Ruud Lubbers (Lubbers II)

-	Hans Simons (1947–2019)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs	7 November 1989 – 26 February 1994	Labour Party	Ruud Lubbers (Lubbers III)

State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport	Portfolio	Term of office	Party	Prime Minister (Cabinet)

Erica Terpstra	Erica Terpstra (born 1943)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Minority Affairs Food Policy Sport	22 August 1994 – 28 June 1998	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Wim Kok (Kok I)

Margo Vliegenthart	Margo Vliegenthart (born 1958)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Sport	3 August 1998 – 22 July 2002	Labour Party	Wim Kok (Kok II)

-	Clémence Ross-van Dorp (born 1957)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Biotechnology Policy Medical Ethics Policy Sport	22 July 2002 – 22 February 2007	Christian Democratic Appeal	Jan Peter Balkenende (Balkenende I • II • III)

Jet Bussemaker	Dr. Jet Bussemaker (born 1961)	Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Biotechnology Policy Medical Ethics Policy Sport	22 February 2007 – 23 February 2010	Labour Party	Jan Peter Balkenende (Balkenende IV)

Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten	Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten (born 1953)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Biotechnology Policy Medical Ethics Policy	14 October 2010 – 5 November 2012	Christian Democratic Appeal	Mark Rutte (Rutte I)

Martin van Rijn	Martin van Rijn (born 1956)	Youth Policy Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs Biotechnology Policy Medical Ethics Policy	5 November 2012 – 26 October 2017	Labour Party	Mark Rutte (Rutte II)

Paul Blokhuis	Paul Blokhuis (born 1963)	Elderly Policy Disability Affairs Veteran Affairs	26 October 2017 – Incumbent	Christian Union	Mark Rutte (Rutte III)

Source: (in Dutch) Kabinetten 1945-heden Parlement & Politiek

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Bussemaker took office as the State Secretary for Health on 22 February 2007.

final_sentence: Bussemaker took office as the State Secretary for Health on 22 February 2007.