Four things to arrange before your first invoice
Four points belong on your list before your first invoice as a self-employed professional in dental care goes out. One is required by law, three are a judgement call.
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What is changing in the rules, what is happening in the labour market and what you can do with it, as a practice or as a clinician. Short, factual and with sources.
The same self-employed worker for fifteen years: is that allowed?
A self-employed professional worked for the same client for almost fifteen years and still did not get an employment contract. The client did pay 33.072 euros, for a different reason.
Court ruling: self-employed at a dental chain
The Zeeland-West-Brabant district court found no employment contract for a self-employed professional at a dental chain. What was decisive, and what does it mean for your locum?
Who may do what? Capacity you already have
Since the end of the ‘registered dental hygienist’ experiment, agreements on reserved procedures have to be set out in detail again. KNMT and NVM are working on a simpler version — but you can get your division of tasks in order now.
68.500 unfilled healthcare vacancies: what that means for your practice
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.
Dentists from outside the EU have doubled: what that means for dental care
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.
What does dental care pay in 2026?
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.
Can your locum still work as a self-employed contractor?
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.
Hiring a locum: rates, agreements and pitfalls
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.
Why your job advert isn’t getting responses
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.
Hiring a dentist from abroad: how BIG registration works
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.
Self-employment and flexible work rules in dental care: what’s changing
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.
On-call contracts are going: how to prepare your practice
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.
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