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The UK’s missing middle market for dementia care

HBI recently reported on the looming dementia wave, which most countries are poorly equipped to tackle. In the UK in particular there is a huge gap in provision of care home places for people with dementia of medium severity. Eilert Hinrichs, Partner at L.E.K. Consulting, a strategy consultancy, recently co-authored an executive insight about this problem. He shared some ideas with us about what can be done about it.
June 7, 2024

TVM Capital raises $250m to invest in Saudi

TVM Capital Healthcare, an emerging markets PE firm based out of Singapore and Dubai, has raised $250 million to invest in the ongoing transformation of Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector. The PE firm says that, when combined with co-investments from its partner base, it expects a total of $400-500 million to be mobilised by its Afiyah Fund, making it “the largest of its kind”.
May 31, 2024

“Nice words, but less money” — new Dutch government announces healthcare prospectus

The newly-formed far-right Dutch coalition government of the PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB parties this month laid out its agreed policy programme in the document ‘Hoop, Lef en Trots’ (‘Hope, Courage and Pride’). While the agreement expresses the new government’s intention to improve healthcare accessibility and make the sector more attractive for workers, it also outlines substantial budget cuts that have raised concerns among healthcare industry groups.
May 31, 2024

India’s journey from a nurse-surplus country to nurse-deficient country

The world is facing a major healthcare workforce crisis. The effects of shortages are already being felt across both developed and developing countries. By 2030, the World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts a shortage of 10 million health workers globally, predominantly in low and lower-middle-income countries.
May 31, 2024

Workers in Finland’s private labs and imaging sector go on strike

Workers in Finland’s private diagnostic imaging and labs sectors have called a strike over wages. Major groups Mehiläinen, Terveystalo, Pihlajalinna, Synlab and Vita Laboratories will be affected. However, a Terveystalo spokesperson tells us the strikes “are not expected to have a material impact on providers nor risk the health of our patients”.
May 31, 2024

Will Germany’s hospital reform fix the sector’s problems?

Two weeks ago Germany’s cabinet government approved Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s hospital reform. The current watered-down reform’s key feature is a proposal to move the sector’s reimbursement model away from fee-per-service payments, purportedly to reduce the incentive to overtreat. However, experts tell us the real motivation is still to shut down smaller unspecialised hospitals. Will it succeed in doing so?
May 31, 2024

Junior doctors to strike days ahead of UK election

Junior doctors in England have announced a new round of strikes as their pay dispute with the government continues unresolved. The British Medical Association (BMA), the UK’s trade union for doctors, confirmed that junior doctors will stage a full walkout from 7am on June 27, 2024, to 7am on July 2, 2024.
May 30, 2024

Careology partners with Evolent to provide digitalised care navigation for cancer patients

UK digital health company Careology has expanded into the US via a partnership with Evolent, a company that provides a care navigation service to cancer patients. Paul Landau, Careology’s founder and CEO, explained to us how the company’s digital platform will enhance the scalability of Evolent’s service, and how the care navigation model, which currently only exists in the US, could improve cancer care in Europe.
May 24, 2024

Interview: Avinav Nigam, Co-Founder and CEO, Tern Group

Avinav Nigam and Krishna Ramkumar founded Tern Group to tackle healthcare professional shortages by harnessing the power of technology to make recruitment easier and more ethical for healthcare businesses and prospective employees alike.
May 24, 2024
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