Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Blog of the week

FREE BLOG Guest Blog: My Key Highlights from the Healthcare Business International Conference

Farid Fezoua — Global Director of Health, Education & Services, International Finance Corporation Global healthcare is in flux. Amid shifting demographics, rapid technological transformation, climate-induced risks, and changing patient expectations in the face of widening disparities, traditional healthcare models are falling short. How do we reverse this trend and keep global development on course? What can we learn from emerging market contexts?

July 4, 2024

FREE BLOG Healthcare — Europe’s electoral elephant in the room

“The ultimate election year” is how Time Magazine heralded 2024 in its new year coverage. 64 countries have or will be going to the polls this year, from the world’s largest democracy, India, to Kiribati, one of the smallest.

June 28, 2024

FREE BLOG Major topics and trends discussed at HBI 2024

HBI’s annual conference took place last week. Almost 600 attendees — comprising CXOs of healthcare providers, investors, suppliers and advisors — travelled from 40 different countries to London for the event. Over the course of three days of roundtables, workshops and panel discussions, they explored the big issues the sector faces, and the opportunities available to the private sector in helping to solve them.

June 20, 2024

FREE BLOG Change is the driver of opportunity — a new venue, new volume and new value

As an event organiser, there is always a growing sense of anticipation that builds to a crescendo before the start of an event. This is followed by the acute excitement during its delivery, and, all being well, a sense of achievement and value delivered to bask in (however briefly) afterwards.

June 14, 2024

FREE BLOG Guest Post: Embedding quality care into the culture of emerging market health

It is tempting to think of universal health coverage as a quantitative endeavour since, after all, the goal is to bring sustainable and accessible health care to more and more of the planet’s people. But while numbers and quantity matter, the mission is about quality at its heart.

June 4, 2024

FREE BLOG Guest Post: Building ethical governance into emerging market health care

Few relationships embody and require trust quite like the one between patients and doctors. Every minute of every day, all over the planet, people put their lives in the hands of health care professionals and the facilities they work in.

May 31, 2024

FREE BLOG How can patients be encouraged to become active consumers of healthcare?

Last week we reported on the UK government’s plan to increase the options available to NHS England patients for certain types of out-of-hospital care, in what it hailed as “the largest expansion of patient choice in the NHS in a decade”.

May 24, 2024

FREE BLOG How do you get patients to do what they say they will? Tastier carrots or bigger sticks?

The UK this week reported that people on long-term sick leave or classed as economically inactive has risen to 2.8 million, up 300,000 on the previous year. This statistic came fast on the heels of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest controversial speech calling for an end to the UK’s ‘sick note culture’ in a call to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work.

May 17, 2024

FREE BLOG Are retirement villages still the future of elderly care?

Back in 2021 there was a definite sense amongst those involved in Europe’s elderly care sector that investment into retirement villages was set to explode. But in the last couple of years investment into new retirement village sites has stalled. Is this just a temporary blip, or are there more fundamental barriers preventing development in the sector?

May 10, 2024

FREE BLOG Optum and Walmart fail at telehealth and low-cost care — what does this teach us?

This week saw the news that retail giant Walmart is shutting down its 51 centres and its virtual care offering launched in 2020, and that insurer UnitedHealth’s Optum Virtual Care service was also being shut down after launching in 2021.

May 3, 2024

Older posts

Newer posts

Blog of the week

July 4, 2024

June 28, 2024

June 20, 2024

June 14, 2024

June 4, 2024

May 31, 2024

May 24, 2024

May 17, 2024

May 10, 2024

May 3, 2024

Our Services

Company

Resources

Our Services

Company

Resources

Find Us

Please wait while your search results are being generated.

Get a CLEAR picture on private healthcare services across Europe

Subscribe now to Healthcare Europa and get instant access to:

check

check

check

check

check

check

check

check

Know the pulse of the market from just £1040.

Get a CLEAR picture on private healthcare services across Emerging Markets

Subscribe now to Healthcare Nova and get instant access to:

check

check

check

check

check

check

check

check

Know the pulse of the market from just £1040.

Get a CLEAR picture of ALL the top players in 22 sectors across 34 countries

Subscribe now to the only database of the Top 1,700 operators in Europe. Use it to:

check

check

check

check

check

Instant access plus ongoing updatesfrom £1,895.

Get a CLEAR picture of the Top 1,300 players in Emerging Markets

Subscribe now to the only database of the Top 1,300 private healthcare operators in Emerging Markets . Use it to:

check

check

check

check

check

check

Instant access plus ongoing updatesfrom £1,895.

Know the pulse of the market
from just £1040.

Know the pulse of the market
from just £1040.

Subscribe now to the only database of the
Top 1,700 operators in Europe. Use it to:

Instant access plus ongoing updates
from £1,895.

Subscribe now to the only database of the Top 1,300 private
healthcare operators in Emerging Markets . Use it to:

Instant access plus ongoing updates
from £1,895.