by Ali Rice | Aug 30, 2023 | By Brendan Martin
In the September issue of Care Management Matters magazine our very own Brendan Martin shares what’s behind the success of the Dutch care model Buurtzorg and explains what Britain can learn from the initiative. Amid all the doom & gloom about the state of health...
by Ali Rice | May 15, 2023 | By Brendan Martin
In the first of this series of blogs, Brendan Martin explained that Buurtzorg’s purpose is to support people to live their lives with meaning and autonomy, based on the belief that we all want to maximise our quality of life and control over it but are also...
by Ali Rice | Oct 7, 2022 | By Brendan Martin
In my last blog, I explored Buurtzorg’s purpose, stressing that its service helps people draw on and contribute to their own and their community’s assets, complementing them as necessary with professional inputs. Among the many striking features of how Buurtzorg...
by Ali Rice | Aug 4, 2022 | By Brendan Martin
Over the past seven years Public World (now trading also as Buurtzorg Britain & Ireland) has introduced scores of organisations and hundreds of nurses and other professionals to the Buurtzorg way of working. We’ve also been a partner in the Transforming Integrated...
by Ali Rice | Jul 12, 2022 | By Brendan Martin
A couple of weeks ago I was honoured to speak at a ceremony arranged by the Thistle Foundation in Edinburgh at which certificates were awarded to the first cohort of graduates from the charity’s innovative new Academy. Nine women and men from all sorts of backgrounds...
by Ali Rice | May 3, 2022 | By Brendan Martin
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,...
