Verified · Mar 20251 min read
● projectScaled · systemic · 2006
Buurtzorg Nederland
Home-care organization founded in 2006 by nurse Jos de Blok with 4 nurses and 430 euros. It operates with self-managed teams of at most 12 neighborhood nurses, without a management layer, who organize the patient's full care and network.
illustrative atlas image · Adam Bezer / Unsplash01 The context
It reports more than 10,000 professionals in some 850 teams (more recent figures cite up to ~14,000 professionals and ~950 teams), with high staff satisfaction and operational savings reported in the literature. The model has been replicated in 24 countries (Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, the US, etc.).
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceBuurtzorg Nederland: A Global Model of Social Innovation, Change, and Whole-Systems HealingGlobal Advances in Health and Medicine (SAGE) · 2015