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FREE BLOG Are some private clinicians effectively licensed drug dealers?

This week the BBC released a panorama episode entitled ‘Private ADHD Clinics Exposed’, in which it went undercover to find that three private clinics in the UK are giving out ADHD prescriptions based on a short and potentially unreliable online assessment delivered by a non-psychiatrist. Is there a wider issue that there is a perverse incentive in private health care to over diagnose and over prescribe?
May 19, 2023

FREE BLOG A bientôt Korian, bonjour Clariane!

When an organisation is marred by a reputational scandal so harmful that it jeopardises the bottom line, often a corporate rebrand is the only solution. This course of action is nothing new and there are countless examples of successful makeovers across industries, and health care is no different.
May 12, 2023

FREE BLOG Why there is no quick fix for German healthcare

At times, it can feel like healthcare reform moves at the pace of an oil tanker, and currently, nowhere is this more true than in Germany. Among the issues holding the EU5 market back are an allergy to digitalisation, an inability to make unpopular decisions, and the rigidity of roles in the medical profession.
May 5, 2023

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?
April 28, 2023

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. 
April 21, 2023

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?
March 31, 2023

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.
March 24, 2023

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.
March 17, 2023
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