Introduction: The acute health care sector in Belgium is well developed. Compared to the EU-15, Belgium is ranked (OECD, 2015) 4th for its number of hospital beds (6,3 beds/1000 inhabitants), 2nd for its number of doctor consultations (7,4 consultations per capita). Flanders is one of the regions in Belgium with a population of over 6,5 million inhabitants (2017, VRIND). There are 54 General Hospitals active, spread over 105 hospital campuses, with a total of 29.577 hospital beds. There is an excess in capacity and fragmentation of expertise. Description of policy context and objective: In 2014, Flanders started a process of re-designing the hospital care and primary care. The Policy Vision in Flanders is designed according to the principle that basic care is close to the people, whereas more specialised care recruits from a wider environment. All healthcare providers will have to change from a supply-driven organisation of care towards person-centred care based on needs. Until now hospitals made an individual Strategic Care Plan. Now we want to come to a Regional Strategic Care Plan (RSCP) made by a network. The increase in ageing, multimorbidity, complex disorders, chronic care,… require a new relationship between hospitals and between hospitals and other healthcare providers. With the Regional Strategic Planning of Care (RSPC), we want to match the hospital care to the needs of the population, in consultation with other healthcare providers. More attention will go to task differentiation and new partnerships. In 2018, the Belgian government has drafted a bill that will force hospitals to work together in networks. The networks will have to be geographical contiguous and have to take in consideration the logical flow of patients. Targeted population: Patients in need of hospital care Highlights: Studies on future population needs, on an optimal spread of the care offer and to create a framework for RSPC, based on future needs, actual demografic figures, …., were executed. A computermodel was developed to ...