Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau

What Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau does

Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau (SPVB) is a Danish private healthcare staffing agency headquartered in Aarhus that supplies qualified temporary healthcare professionals — including nurses, nursing students (3rd year), social and health assistants, hospital aides, caregivers, social and health helpers, pedagogues, social educators, clinical assistants, and medical secretaries — to public and private healthcare institutions across Denmark and Norway. Founded in 1991 by nurse Hanne Rou Jensen, who continues to serve as Managing Director, the company claims to be Denmark's oldest staffing agency in the healthcare sector and operates as a 100% Danish-owned private limited company (CVR 15386738).

The company runs a digital staffing platform comprising a corporate website (spvb.dk), a contractor web application (app.spvb.dk), and native mobile applications for iOS and Android, rebuilt in 2024 as part of a broader digital transformation. The platform integrates MitID for Danish digital identity verification and CPR number validation, supports contractor onboarding, shift booking, push notifications, payslip access, and document management, and serves both sides of a two-sided marketplace: institutional clients (regional health authorities, hospitals, care facilities) and individual healthcare professionals. Operational metrics cited include 91% shift coverage rate, 8 minute 36 second average response time, and 24/7/365 service availability.

The business model is professional services / labor intermediation: SPVB employs healthcare contractors and deploys them on temporary assignments to institutional clients, with pricing negotiated individually based on qualifications, shift type, and institutional agreements (not publicly disclosed). Distribution is hybrid — direct enterprise sales with dedicated account management for larger healthcare institutions, combined with a self-service mobile and web onboarding flow for individual contractors. Named institutional customers include Region Midtjylland, Region Nordjylland, Skejby Sygehus (Aarhus University Hospital), and Horsens Sygehus.

Name

Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau

Legal name

Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau ApS

Website

https://spvb.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau (SPVB) is a Danish healthcare staffing agency, founded in 1991, that supplies qualified nurses, assistants, and caregivers to public and private hospitals and care facilities across Denmark and Norway via a digital platform with mobile app, web app, and MitID integration.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Licensed CNA/HHA Staffing & Credentialed Placement (HSABAMAH)

Keywords

• Healthcare staffing services
• Temporary nurse placement
• Medical workforce solutions
• Clinical shift coverage
• Healthcare personnel agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Aarhus

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Staffing Services: SPVB generates revenue by supplying qualified healthcare professionals (nurses, nursing students, social & health assistants, caregivers, pedagogues, etc.) to healthcare institutions on a temporary/contract basis. The company acts as an intermediary, employing the healthcare workers and contracting their services to hospitals, care facilities, and other healthcare providers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau (SPVB) is a Danish healthcare staffing agency that supplies qualified temporary healthcare professionals—including nurses, nursing students (3rd year), social & health assistants, hospital aides, caregivers, pedagogues, clinical assistants, and medical secretaries—to public and private healthcare institutions in Denmark and Norway. The company operates as an intermediary, employing the healthcare workers and contracting their services to hospitals, care facilities, regional health authorities, and other providers for shift coverage, vacation fill-ins, and sick leave replacements. Operations are supported by a digital platform combining a mobile app (iOS/Android) and a web application (app.spvb.dk), enabling self-service onboarding via MitID, shift management, payroll, and real-time matching.

Product overview

Sygeplejerskernes Vikarbureau (SPVB) operates as a unified staffing platform combining a public-facing corporate website (www.spvb.dk), a dedicated mobile app for iOS and Android, and a web application (app.spvb.dk). The digital ecosystem enables healthcare professionals to register, manage shifts, view pay slips, and access work schedules, while healthcare institutions can request temporary staff coverage across all specialties. The company has operated since 1991 as a Danish-owned staffing agency serving the healthcare sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Staffing Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 91% coverage rate for shift requests
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Attendo: Nordic care provider operating in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. Comparable Nordic healthcare workforce operator serving public-sector clients with similar demographic-driven demand dynamics.
• Ambea: Leading Nordic care services provider operating across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Adjacent healthcare workforce operator with similar geographic focus and dependence on Scandinavian public-sector care demand.
• Uniflex: Swedish/Nordic staffing and recruitment company with healthcare and care assignments. Comparable Nordic staffing operator serving the same healthcare verticals.
• Moment: Norwegian temporary staffing agency with healthcare coverage. Direct Nordic peer operating an analogous temp-staffing model for healthcare professionals in a neighboring market that SPVB has already entered.
• StudentConsulting: Nordic staffing platform focused on students and graduates, with healthcare and care vertical exposure. Comparable Nordic temp-staffing operator with self-serve digital onboarding model.
• AMN Healthcare: Largest US healthcare staffing firm with technology-enabled matching and credentialing. Useful benchmark for how a specialized healthcare staffing model scales via technology, even though geography differs.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Group: Global staffing leader with a dedicated Adecco Healthcare division. Operates broadly across industries in Denmark and Norway, overlapping SPVB in healthcare but as part of a much larger portfolio.
• Randstad: Global staffing incumbent with Randstad Healthcare serving hospitals and care providers across Europe, including Denmark. Provides healthcare staffing as one of many verticals.
• Hays: Global specialist recruiter with a strong healthcare and life sciences practice. Specializes by sector including healthcare, providing a comparable specialization model at much larger scale.
• ManpowerGroup: Global workforce solutions company with healthcare staffing capabilities. Operates in Nordic markets through Manpower and Experis brands as a broad incumbent with healthcare overlap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sygeplejerskernes-vikarbureau-aps

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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