Going Dutch in West Suffolk: learning from the Buurtzorg model of care

Going Dutch in West Suffolk: learning from the Buurtzorg model of care Writing about Why the Dutch are different, Ben Coates describes how distinctive cultural practices of directness, tolerance and co-operation in the Netherlands are (at least partly) rooted in a history that required different communities to work together to establish and maintain drainage systems to rescue these lowlands from the sea. So perhaps it is not surprising that this is the nation that has cultivated a model of health and social care provision in which professionals work collaboratively in non-hierarchical teams to provide holistic care. The King's Fund