economic monitoring for care farming in the netherlands

8/6/2019 Economic Monitoring for Care Farming in the Netherlands

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Economic Monitor for Care-Farming in The Netherlands

Bart Doorneweert ([email protected])

Gabe Venema ([email protected])


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Care farming in The Netherlands

Background:

Care farming is evolving through 3 clear phases:

Individual initiative Network formation

Market oriented provision of healthcare services

Currently there is a boom in healthcare farmsstart-ups


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Growth trajectory


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Opportunities and Constraints

Opportunities:

Sector with a positive status in society and withgovernment (high-quality healthcare service)

Part-privatization of healthcare expenditure

Constraints:

Limited collective coordinating initiatives in the sector

Lack of a formal system of information exchange thatsupplements networks


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Focus information exchange

Market orientation requires a basis of structuredinformation exchange

Sector needs to give face to an importantquestion:

What benefits flow from a Euro spent on a care-farm?


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Multi-stakeholder interest in this question:

Government/society

Insurance agencies

Clients The entrepreneur

Consultants

Research

Banks, etc


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Care-farming core information comprises of:

Quality of healthcare services

Business economics of care farming Ideal format for exchange is a monitor:

It contains a framework of analysis for the sector

It allows periodic comparison to track developments and evaluateperformance of the sector


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Monitor design

We asked four leadingquestions for designing amonitor:1) what do we consider a

carefarm? And why?

2) what economic issuesshould the monitor cover?

3) which indicators can portraydevelopments in theseissues

4) what is the most effective

way for gathering theinformation to fill in theindicators?


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Question 1 answered

In essence a farm where the owners income is

contingent on the results of boththe farmingactivity and healthcare services.

ie. we exclude amateur-farmers and hugeinstitutionalized care-farming systems


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Question 2 answered

The balance between the size and weight offarming activity and that of the health-careactivity, and the transformation over time.

Which production factors are employed in carefarmingand how are they most effectively employed? ie. whatkind and how much labor/investment is required; whatincome will it generate?

Are there gains from specialization to providingservices to defined market segments?


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Question 3 answered Basic information splitting farming/healthcare for:

turnover

utilized labor

value of assets

Economic performance indicators on /client(type)or /firm basis:

Central: Turnover Costs = Income

Turnover/(client or firm), labor/(client or firm),investment/(client or firm), etc


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Question 4 answered

Available information:

The Dutch Support Centre database holds qualitativecharacteristics of (all) care farms- basis for sample.

Farming structure characteristics of all farms availablethrough farm-census

Apply common definition of care farm and filter out the non-carefarms.


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Thank you very much for yourattention!

Wageningen UR

economic monitoring for care farming in the netherlands

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