HBI Deals+Insights / Healthcare Reform

New homecare model goes international

Buurtzorg, the largest and fastest-growing homecare company in the Netherlands, is expanding into Sweden, with plans for further moves across Europe. Sales will come to €130m in 2011 up from €80m in 2010. Its model, based on giving nurses the power to manage each branch as if it were their own business, is backed by a powerful IT system linked into the public sector system. We talk to majority owner Edwin Oude Middendorp....

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