Verified · Apr 20101 min read
projectDiscontinued · national · 2007

Zorgcooperatie Nederland (cooperative collaboration)

Sunlit empty studio room with tall chairs by a windowillustrative atlas image · Skylar Kang / Pexels

01 How it works

02 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
ContextZorgcooperatie Nederland stopt ermeeZorgvisie · 2010

03 Lessons learned

Members dissolved the cooperative because the expected efficiency gains fell short of what was projected: cooperating 'for efficiency' without a concrete, shared community or clinical need is not enough to sustain a care structure. The care cooperatives that do endure (Hoogeloon, stadsdorpen) are born from a locally felt need among neighbours, not from a scale calculation between organizations.