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Prof. dr. Henk Nies is director of Strategy and Development of Vilans, the Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Long-Term Care. Moreover, since 2011 he is professor of Organisation and Policy Development in Long-term Care at the Jo Visser Endowed Chair at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Furthermore, he is member of the Quality Council at the National Health Care Institute of the Netherlands. He is member of the board of Eurocarers, European organisation for informal care and member of the supervisory board of AxionContinu, a large elderly care organisation in Utrecht.
He graduated at a psycho-gerontologist at Radboud University in Nijmegen (1982), where he also obtained his PhD on a thesis addressing policy research in care for older people (1992). Throughout his career he has worked at the edge of policy, practice and research, first at provincial level, later at national level. He was involved in various national and international projects on long-term care, integrated care and quality in long-term care.
After a seven years’ appointment at the Provincial Council for Health Care in Gelderland, he became a senior researcher and later head of the Department of Service Integration, Elderly Care and Quality in Health Care at NZi, the National Hospital Institute (1990-2001). After that was appointed as director of Long-term Care at the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare (2001-2007). From this department and three other institutes Vilans was constituted. Henk Nies was CEO of Vilans during the first seven years of its existence (2007-2014) and later for five more years he was member of the Executive Board (2014-2019). Following the commitments made in the succession planning of the top of the organisation, he changed position to contribute to Vilans during the final three years of his career at Vilans as director of Strategy and Development.
He has ample experience in many national innovation, improvement and research programs in long-term care, in various cases as a project-leader. He was project-leader six years’ National Innovation of Elderly Care Program. He set up large, nation-wide innovation, improvement and implementation programs such as ‘Improving professional-client interactions in elderly care’, the ‘National Dementia Care Program’, ‘Care for Better’, ‘In to Care’ and ‘Dignity and Pride’. His current field of interest is inter-organisational collaboration and innovation, quality management and dignity in elderly care, including care for carers. Moreover, he has been involved in several comparative studies in which national systems are compared.
In his international work, he was scientific director of CARMEN, the Care and Management of Services for Older People in Europe Network, a project supported by the European Commission (FP5). He was a member of the scientific management team of the INTERLINKS-project, a project on health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe. He has been involved in comparative research on quality management (for instance for the OECD), integrated care (European Social Network), dementia and respite care, integrated care and informal care. He was co-editor of the book Long-term care in Europe. Improving Policy and Practice (2013). He was project-leader of two studies for Dutch Parliament comparing the Dutch and Scandinavian systems.
Henk was also one of the founders of Eurocarers, the European association working for carers. He was vice-president of Eurocarers on behalf of research organisations from 2004 tot 2009. Currently, he is on the board again.
In 2018 he was co-chair of the Scientific Committee of the 18th International Conference on Integrated Care in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Further, he recently (2021) co-edited with dr. Axel Kaehne the book How to deliver Integrated Care: A Guidebook for Managers. Bingley: Emerald Publishers
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Journal of advanced nursing (2024)
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICSno. 4 (2024): 231-234
International journal of integrated careno. 4 (2023): 4-4
BMC health services researchno. 1 (2023): 507-12
International Journal of Integrated Careno. S3 (2022)
International Journal of Integrated Careno. S3 (2022): 250-250
International Journal of Integrated Careno. S3 (2022)
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