by Ali Rice | Mar 8, 2022 | By Brendan Martin
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...
by Ali Rice | Dec 2, 2021 | By Brendan Martin
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,...
by Ali Rice | Oct 8, 2021 | By Brendan Martin
“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...
by Ali Rice | Oct 1, 2021 | By Brendan Martin
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...
by Ali Rice | Sep 11, 2021 | By Brendan Martin
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...
by Ali Rice | Aug 6, 2021 | By Brendan Martin
” . . . reform should build on the emerging evidence that community-based approaches can create better care and jobs at lower cost” says Buurtzorg Britain and Ireland’s Brendan Martin in this letter of his, which was recently featured in the...
