News

News and stories

Updates from Buurtzorg and our partners around the world.

Sonali Sharma with her book The 90% Code

October 9, 2026

The End of the Hero CEO? Buurtzorg as a model for distributed leadership

In an interview with The FINANCIAL, systems strategist Sonali Sharma points to Buurtzorg as the example of how decisions can be shared across self-managing teams.

October 1, 2026

Buurtzorg Brazil celebrates five years

Grupo Laços, Buurtzorg's partner in Brazil, is celebrating five years: more than 10,000 people cared for, over 400 colleagues and offices in eight states.

September 16, 2026

Shift: Conversations on Changing Health Care

Reimagining Home Care - The Buurtzorg Way

August 5, 2026

World Economic Forum

‘Buurtzorg’. The Dutch word that could revolutionize healthcare — Jun 13, 2017

Title card of the Euronews series Made in Europe: Big Success Stories, over a Dutch residential street

June 26, 2026

Euronews: the Dutch proximity health care revolution

A Euronews report follows Buurtzorg nurses as they help older people stay independent and dignified at home.

Title page of the Harvard Kennedy School Malcolm Wiener Center publication 'Buurtzorg: A Model for the "Good Jobs" of Tomorrow?'

January 15, 2026

Harvard Kennedy School: a model for the 'good jobs' of tomorrow?

A new Harvard Kennedy School report asks whether Buurtzorg's way of working could improve jobs across the service sector.

Cover of De buurtzorgrevolutie: het verhaal van Jos de Blok, by Jos de Blok and Bart Kiers

November 15, 2025

New book: The Buurtzorg Revolution

Jos de Blok tells the story of Buurtzorg, from a kitchen-table idea to more than 1,100 teams, in a new book written with journalist Bart Kiers.

Participants with their walkers, wearing flower garlands, on the track at the Olympic Stadium during the 2025 National Walker Race

May 21, 2025

National Walker Race 2025

Older people from across the Netherlands took to the track with their walkers at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

Portraits of Jos de Blok (left) and his son Joost de Blok (right), directors of Buurtzorg

December 8, 2023

Joost de Blok appointed co-director of Buurtzorg

Former community nurse Joost de Blok joins his father Jos as co-director of Buurtzorg Nederland, with a view to eventually leading the organization.

June 1, 2022

Do We Need Bosses?

This CEO says we need to rethink workplace structures for young people and our mental health — Jun 1, 2022

2017–2022

From the archive

Earlier stories from Buurtzorg and our international partners.

November 8, 2022

Harvard Business School case study

December 7, 2021

Buurtzorg launches Danish coaching and consulting unit

November 29, 2021

Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs 20th Business Startup Awards!

November 19, 2021

Buurtzorg on the islands Aruba, Sint Maarten and Curaçao

October 1, 2021

Caring Places: Building Healthy Communities conference, 19 October 2021

March 22, 2021

Being Human podcast #155: Pioneering self-management with Jos de Blok

March 19, 2021

From fear to opportunities in community care

January 20, 2021

Simplifying Complexity with Autonomy

December 16, 2020

Bem-vinda! Welcome to our new Brazilian partner

June 3, 2020

Testing for COVID-19 at Buurtzorg

June 3, 2020

Spread the word!

June 3, 2020

Buurtzorg-modellen kommer til Danmark

March 14, 2020

Corona Virus

February 27, 2020

TICC update

November 20, 2019

And the winner is...Jos de Blok!

November 18, 2019

Successful TICC coach session with our 2 Seas TICC partners

November 18, 2019

Die Pflege-Revolution?

October 22, 2019

Visit one of our international days in Almelo

October 22, 2019

Interest in the Buurtzorg way of working?

September 19, 2019

Buurtzorg Basics

May 24, 2019

Free Webinar

May 6, 2019

RSA Future Work Award 2019

January 16, 2019

Together we change the world

November 9, 2018

Buurtzorg in Taiwan

October 8, 2018

Jos de Blok, founder and CEO Buurtzorg explains...

October 8, 2018

Erfolgsmodell in der Pflege

October 1, 2018

The first Buurtzorg conference in Germany

August 22, 2018

Apolitical: "First coffee, then care"

August 15, 2018

Buurtzorg in India

August 15, 2018

Spitex - "Wir sind über Buurtzorg gestolpert"

August 15, 2018

Buurtzorg: Das niederländische Modell im Praxischeck (Contec)

July 6, 2018

Good work in Germany!

July 6, 2018

Buurtzorg is now officially represented in Australia

June 13, 2018

Visit from Korea

June 13, 2018

Visit from Japan

February 14, 2018

Buurtzorg Neighborhood Care Asia

February 14, 2018

Building a global movement for patient centred care

November 20, 2017

Pois marginaalista!

November 9, 2017

Buurtzorg in China

November 8, 2017

Transforming Integrated Care in the Community (TICC)

October 16, 2017

Self-management: how it works

October 2, 2017

Learning tour

May 29, 2017

Update from Grannvård Sweden

May 4, 2017

Developments in South Korea

November 17, 2014

Jos de Blok receives the RSA Albert Medal