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FREE BLOG What the Marie Celeste NHS feels like today

Mansfield Advisers recent research showed that whilst the number of doctors and nurses working for the NHS has risen by 15% since 2019 and the Covid pandemic, the actual volume of work has fallen to 90% of the levels in 2019. What does that really feel like?

FREE BLOG The confused politics of health care

Regular HBI readers understand the widely-held belief that in health care “for-profit = bad” is far from the whole story - and often not a part of it. But it is worth pondering where this view comes from, and disentangling the various assumptions which underlie it, in order to separate ideas which have some justification from those that are confused, or even outright inconsistent. 

FREE BLOG Is the deals dam ready to burst?

Economic uncertainty and a slew of global problems led to an M&A slowdown at the end of last year, and into 2023. Could we see a flood of deals in Q2?

FREE BLOG AI is about to change everything

For those old enough to remember the latter years of the 1990s, consider the following curiosity about this period: despite the Internet (or the World Wide Web, as it was known back then) being so much the rage that it led to a stock market bubble - and crash - with businesses across a range of industries expending significant resources trying to find ways to cash in on it, most ordinary people had never used it.

FREE BLOG Watch out! Here come the heavyweight tech disrupters

HBI does not often report on deals taking place “across the pond” so when something does make our pages, it’s significant, and a portent of things to come. Amazon’s staggering $3.9bn acquisition of One Medical which we covered earlier this month certainly fits the bill in both regards. Here come the tech disrupters.

FREE BLOG Is there still fertile ground for medical tourism?

As European law homogenises and countries across the continent fall into step, does this mean an end to the once lucrative medical tourism trade enjoyed by countries with softer regulation? Perhaps surprisingly, HBI hears not completely – or at least not yet.

FREE BLOG How to plug the brain drain

A substantial part of the global workforce is born, raised and trained in emerging markets - and then promptly leaves to work elsewhere. How can you plug the brain drain?

FREE BLOG Anti private sentiment – winds of change, or just hot air?

This week, reforms in Germany see us taking another look at the plans of Germany’s controversial health minister Karl Lauterbach. He really doesn’t seem to be a fan of for-profit investors! Are the winds of change coming to flatten the investor landscape – or is he full of hot air?

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