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Buurtzorg: Dutch district nurses
Buurtzorg could work in the UK, but why must it fit into the existing system?
BMJ 2017; 359 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5376 (Published 24 November 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;359:j5376
- Michael Bowen, consultant gynaecologist
- Oxford, UK
- mikebowen{at}quista.net
The piece about the Buurtzorg concept of social and nursing care in the community almost had me misty eyed with hope for the future.1 Few challenges are more important and pressing than resolving this matter in the UK. And we must resolve it or the logistic and financial effects will bulldoze every other health agenda out of the way. …
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