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FREE BLOG Subscription Healthcare: Seizing the Opportunity, HBI 2022

Almost every healthcare operator wants to move from delivering episodes of care to more continuous care delivery with much more constant patient touch. Ultimately that enables the sale of a continuous subscription and so much higher quality earnings. That is one reason why outpatient chains like Terveystalo and Medicover trade considerably higher than hospital groups.

FREE BLOG Women leading in health care

The health care sector is dominated by women. They make up around 70% of the health care workforce - so why are there so few in senior leadership positions?

FREE BLOG Here’s to Sophie!

Media firestorms exposing poor treatment in for-profit nursing homes have occurred frequently over the last decade. Normally companies respond by chucking their CEOs or by sitting tight-lipped and threatening to sue. Not Sophie Boissard at Korian.

FREE BLOG Training a doctor for €100,000

Yes, you read that right: €100,000. That is the total fee that for-profit educator EDU charges for a five-and-a-half year education, including a first degree, a masters, a year in a hospital, followed by six months as a trainee in a hospital at the end (see our interview of the week).

FREE BLOG How will the elderly care sector weather the storm?

As Orpea faces a media and political storm following the publication of a critical book - the contents of which it rejects - it is worth noting that accusations of abuse and neglect within care homes are not a new phenomenon.

FREE BLOG Covid conquered? What next for nursing homes

Nursing homes were in a dark place in 2020. One operator candidly told us earlier this week that they were seen as "places where you went to die". At the time, the reputational damage and the knock to occupancy looked substantial. But now we hear - across Europe - that care homes are not just as safe as houses. They are safer. As for Covid, people, apparently, have short memories.

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