Humanity above Bureaucracy
From the start, Jos de Blok intentionally designed the conditions within Buurtzorg to create a highly scaleable model that would lead to a transition in health care. A new model of organising is needed for a transition to occur, no matter the field.
With his experience as a community nurse and background in economics, when Jos witnessed the demise of community nursing in the 80s and 90s, he decided to use his ambitiousness to make a place for the most beautiful profession in the world. Based on a vision of community nursing and distinct principles, he designed an organisation that grew organically and dramatically. The outcomes could only be achieved by having these principles embedded in the organisation.
Buurtzorg continues to influence and lead innovation across the care system in the Netherlands and internationally. Since the first team was created in 2006 Buurtzorg Netherlands has grown rapidly to 850 teams and 14.000 nurses. At home and across the world Buurtzorg is supporting providers to transition to its model of care.
Buurtzorg has developed the principles to include services all care disciplines; children and families, mental health, domestic support, primary care, hospice.
Collaboration is key to Buurtzorg’s model of care and and its operating model; this has seen the organisation collaborate in new areas such as Mental Health and Children & Families.
It has inspired other care organisations and Buurtzorg has collaborated with these organisations too; increasingly the interest is international and Buurtzorg has established an international team to lead on collaborations all around the world.
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