What is changing in the rules, what is happening in the labour market and what you can do with it as a practice. Short, factual and with sources.
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Statistics Netherlands counted 68.500 unfilled healthcare vacancies in the second quarter, against 68.400 a quarter earlier. What that figure does and does not say about your dental practice.
Dutch current affairs programme Nieuwsuur: intake from outside the EU doubled in five years, while students here are turned away by ballot. One in four dentists now trained abroad — the figures, and three sober conclusions.
No collective agreement, no official pay scales. Current salary indications per role, the usual locum percentages, and why you have to recalibrate this every year.
The Dutch tax authority is enforcing again and since 2026 the first fines are possible. Five questions that determine whether your arrangement holds up — and three routes if it doesn’t.
What is a normal percentage, what do you put in writing, and where does it go wrong? Using the model agreement from KNMT, ANT and VvAA as a starting point.
The shortages will last until at least 2030 — the pool is not getting bigger. Seven changes that will make your advert beat the one from the practice down the road.
An EU qualification or one from outside, the language requirement at B2+ and lead times from months to years. What to check before you agree a start date.
Four pieces of legislation will affect how practices work with locums, self-employed professionals and flexible staff in the coming years. The timeline, what it means for practice owners and for clinicians, and answers to the most common questions.
The Dutch act on greater security for flexible workers has been passed. Zero-hours contracts are disappearing, extending fixed-term contracts is getting harder, and agency workers gain equal footing — and become more expensive. What you can do now.
These articles are general; your practice or your career is not. Put your question to us — you get an honest answer, including when that is “don’t do it”.
