How can we eliminate the waiting lists for routine healthcare?

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Healthcare Innovation How can we eliminate waiting lists for routine healthcare? Regular healthcare resumed at the end of April, but the waiting lists remain long. Moreover, many administrators and specialists are concerned about a surge in deferred care. How can we eliminate the waiting lists for routine care? This can only be achieved by gaining […]

Column by Peter de Bruin | Vaccination Hesitancy Exposes the DNA of the Healthcare System

Sometimes it takes a crisis to gain insight into your own DNA, writes Peter de Bruin. In the healthcare sector, the slow vaccination rollout makes it clear that there is nothing wrong with healthcare in the Netherlands—but there is certainly something wrong with how it is organized. We need more scale and collaboration. We need to support the healthcare system and combat fragmentation. The many healthcare administrators, virologists, and other medical professionals who have publicly expressed their surprise have a point. Thanks to the coronavirus, the healthcare system now has a better understanding.

Column by Peter de Bruin | “Letting Go of the Patient”

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Healthcare in the Netherlands is of high quality. Yet it costs a lot of money and requires more people than we have. Can we do better? Yes, but that requires collaboration. This is difficult to achieve because of the many “mine versus yours” debates about money, data, systems, etc., fueled by the sense of responsibility for “my” patient. Collaboration is only possible with—and through—administrators and healthcare professionals who are willing to move forward by letting go of the old ways.

An optimal healthcare portfolio, more relevant than ever

The Right Healthcare in the Right Place An optimal healthcare portfolio, more relevant than ever An optimal healthcare portfolio is more relevant than ever. Wouter Evers of Turner observed during the COVID-19 crisis how decisions regarding healthcare services were made rapidly. Services were scaled back, coordinated, and redistributed at lightning speed. Nevertheless, an optimal healthcare […]

Consultancy.nl | Comprehensive Capacity Management as the Foundation for Scaling Up Healthcare

The Right Healthcare in the Right Place Comprehensive Capacity Management as the Foundation for Scaling Up Healthcare Consultancy.nl documented the recommendations made by Turner’s healthcare experts Peter de Bruin and Femke van den Wall Bake regarding scaling up healthcare services. In the article “Integrated Capacity Management as the Foundation for Scaling Up Healthcare,” they discuss […]

Healthcare Innovation: The Region Leads the Way

Healthcare Innovation The region is a leader Through the Healthcare Innovation Monitor and the seminar “Healthcare Innovation: Beyond the Crisis,” Turner is exploring how innovation in healthcare can be accelerated on a lasting basis. In the spring, the COVID-19 crisis gave innovation a huge boost. This fall, that momentum seems to have slowed. We see […]

Breakthrough in Primary Care

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Spreekuur.nl is a great example of how digital healthcare makes it possible to provide the Right Care in the Right Place. With this triage and diagnosis app, patients can take the first steps in primary care on their own. Turner is helping to drive these—and other—breakthroughs in “The Right Healthcare in the Right Place.” ​

Seven Questions for Turner’s Healthcare Expert Annelies van der Ham

Healthcare logistics expert Annelies van der Ham has joined Turner’s healthcare practice. With a completed doctoral dissertation on the organization of healthcare logistics and years of consulting experience under her belt, she is truly an asset to Turner. What kind of experience does she bring to the table? What valuable insights does her research offer? And what are her ambitions? We get to know Annelies through seven questions.​