Dutch healthcare sector has 130,000 jobs on offer this year

The Dutch healthcare sector will have to fill 130,000 jobs this year and there are no candidates for a growing number of functions, the state jobs agency UWV said on Monday. More than one million people currently work in care services, of whom 23% are over the age of 55 and approaching retirement age, the UWV said in a new report. ‘We are getting new people fresh from training but far from enough,’ UWV labour market expert Mechelien van der...