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FREE BLOG With growing investments, 2025 looks promising for the femtech sector

October marked Breast Cancer Awareness Month, focused on awareness, early detection, and research funding. Women’s health, historically neglected, is now a key focus for startups and private equity firms. Female health providers are leveraging telemedicine and AI to address market needs from puberty to postmenopause.

FREE BLOG What does the UK’s budget mean for its creaking healthcare system?

The UK government’s latest budget reveals a truth many European politicians would rather avoid: the current model for financing public services, including healthcare, is creaking. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves' decision to loosen fiscal rules to enable greater borrowing is an admission that something has to give.

FREE BLOG The HBI Top 100 2024 edition is now live: highlights of what’s in the report

This week HBI is publishing the 2024 edition of our annual ranking of the top 100 healthcare providers in EMEA, based on their 2023 revenue. This marks our fourth year of assessing the largest healthcare service providers in the region, drawing from a comprehensive database of over 5,000 operators. The article, which can be accessed here, examines the top 100 companies, analysing the sectors they operate in, their revenue distribution by sub-sector, ownership type, and provides a country-by-country analysis based on representation.

FREE BLOG The future of private equity

Last month I attended IPEM's (HBI’s sister company) private equity conference in Paris. Perhaps the most recurring theme from the two days of panel discussions was that the private equity industry is at a turning point.

FREE BLOG Key insights from industry experts on the healthcare workforce crisis

In this week’s blog, we take a look at the critical workforce challenges in healthcare and explore strategies for attracting and retaining employees. Protests over pay have erupted recently in France, Germany, the UK, and South Korea. In June 2024, thousands of private hospital and clinic workers in France went on strike, while in February,  healthcare professionals in Germany called for better wages. In February, In South Korea, junior doctors protested against plans to increase medical school admissions, citing overwork and inadequate pay.

FREE BLOG The role of the private sector in healthcare systems

This week I attended a meeting of the European Health Policy Group (EHPG) at the London School of Economics. There was a panel entitled ‘Private sector in health care - opportunity or fallacy?’ on which HBI’s founder Max Hotopf spoke.

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