The Netherlands is on track to pass legislation enabling private investors to buy shares in the country's not-for-profit general hospitals, which provide almost all inpatient acute care in the country. Meanwhile, it looks as though Slotervaart, a privatised hospital whose shareholders have been fighting each other for months now, will be taken over by MC Groep, one of the first privatisation players in the country. We talk to Chris Van Den Haak, partner at BDO Netherlands, who has just written a report on the financial health of the Dutch general hospital sector. Are we about to see a tsunami of privatisation?