Buurtzorg Blogs
Let’s make neighbourhoods integrated care systems – without the capital letters
We are delighted to be helping an increasingly diverse range of public service organisations to introduce self-managed team work. In April alone, we worked with: two charities supporting people to live well at home with long-term conditions and learning disabilities,...
Don’t drive Buurtzorg: change at the speed of trust
Did I uncork the champagne on reading Camilla Cavendish’s proposal, in her independent report published last month, that the Buurtzorg model should be “driven out” in adult social care? Surely, as founder and managing director of Buurtzorg Britain & Ireland, I am...
Reflections, hopes & above all, festive greetings to you all!
As the year draws to a close we find ourselves reflecting on the last 12 months, as we did last December, with mixed emotions. We know that work continues to fight COVID, to ramp up the vaccination programme and to address the huge treatment backlog that's grown...
Can you commission friendship?
This year I took part in the 2021 Caring Places Festival, hosted by Buurtzorg Britain and Ireland. The day explored what a caring place can look like, and specifically what the health and care system’s role is in creating caring places. It is already becoming a cliché...
‘People at the heart of care’: how Buurtzorg does it
The UK government yesterday published its “ambitious 10-year vision for how we will transform support and care in England”. We are glad that it presents the Buurtzorg way as an example of how that vision can be realised. The White Paper, People at the Heart of Care,...
The status quo is not an option: primary care must change
A few weeks ago a Manchester GP and three of his staff were hospitalised by a violent attack in their surgery. A 59-year-old man was arrested and so I won’t say any more about that incident. But I do want to talk about the pressures that are stoking anger and despair...
“Health and social care begins at home.” Who knew?
“Health – and social care – begins at home. Family first, then community, then the state.” So said Sajid Javid at the Conservative Party conference. It would be easier to enjoy the mirth his statement stimulated if it weren’t that it also sparked even more...
Health and wellbeing creation from PPL – let’s start the conversation here!
PPL are proud to sponsor Buurtzorg’s Caring Places: Building Healthy Communities Festival on Tuesday 19th October 2021. In preparation for joining the conversations at the festival, we have reflected as a team on our work supporting places to create healthier and...
Reinventing The NHS: Removing The Shackles Of Bureaucracy (Guest blog for Corporate Rebels)
How are work outcomes affected by the treatment of those who do it? I have been exploring this question for ~50 years. In that time, one comment stuck with me more than any other. It was made in 1998 when I interviewed a group of men in Indianapolis who had redesigned...
Why I am worried about the future
Yesterday, with family, I scattered the ashes of my late grandfather, so he was at last laid to rest with my grandmother. It was a sombre but funny thing to do, we know he would have laughed at us in many ways for making a fuss and doing it in the rain. He had a funny...
Join the growing coalition for change!
“Don’t we all want to live in the place we call home with the people and things that we love, in communities where we look out for each other, doing the things that matter to us?” That’s the vision articulated by Social Care Future and we in Buurtzorg share it. In...
The future of social care depends on all of us
Some say it’s a step forward that the United Kingdom government has finally addressed the challenge of social care funding. Others say the planned tax changes are so regressive as to be unsupportable. Both points are valid, but I say that if there is one conclusion to...
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