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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.

FREE BLOG Life Science and Labs are hot

Life sciences property is hot, hot, hot. Just announced is a deal which saw Nordic property group Niam sell Thermo-Fisher’s Finnish offices and labs to Intermediate Capital Group. Meanwhile Life Science REIT (the first publicly quoted trust in Europe dedicated to the sector, which floated in London in October) has already closed five deals. Elsewhere Icade has snapped up five Portuguese hospitals. And we are told that 2022 will be the year the big European property REITs target UK nursing homes and hospitals.

FREE BLOG 2022: Reason for optimism

In many ways, 2021 appears at first glance to have been a false dawn. Far from being put to the sword by vaccines, Covid is still very much with us and still the topic on everyone’s lips, and rightly so. And yet there remain reasons for optimism in the market.

FREE BLOG Where next for telehealth?

Two weeks ago we wrote about how the opportunities for large companies and investors to turn a profit in primary care are limited, and that this explains why there aren’t many large for-profit primary care groups. But there is one part of the primary care sector where this is not true at all: the telehealth sector.

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