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Insurees health concerns, by age

At the recent healthcare insurance conference in Prague, HBI heard about insurees' concerns by age demographic - and how insurers were striving to address them.

Germany only big 5 country to spend more on outpatient than hospitals

Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is planning to shift as much as 25% of care which is currently done on an inpatient basis to outpatient, in the country's biggest health care reform in 20 years. But Germany is already unique amongst the big 5 in that it already spends slightly more on ambulatory care than inpatient care.

Infographic: The state of private pay in the UK

The UK's Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has released its private market update for September 2022, showing the state of private pay in the UK. As is expected with NHS backlogs at a record high, private healthcare is performing very well compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Infographic: Risks of climate change on the supply chain

At the recent Healthcare Procurement Summit in Brussels, multinational conglomerate Philips set out the risks posed to supply chains by climate change - and the steps it felt procurers should take.

Infographic: The challenges elderly care faces

With an aging population, it's no surprise that elderly care has quite the challenge on the horizon in order to meet patient needs.

Countries with most and least affordable health care ranked

Health care software company Radar Healthcare has ranked developed countries by the affordability of their health care, finding Luxembourg to be the most affordable and Greece to be the least affordable.

Nurse migration in UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy 2011-2021

We reported last week on the UK's deal with Nepal to hire nurses so in this week's infographic, we thought we would take a closer look at the migration patterns of nurses across the major European markets UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. We look at the totals from 2011-2020/1 and the most recent available year to see if there are any significant differences.

Ransomware attacks on health care triple

Health care operators are being heavily targeted by ransomware fraudsters. Research from cybersecurity firm Barracuda suggests attacks tripled over the past 12 months, compared to last year. Two thirds of health care organisations were hit by ransomware in 2021 - up from a third in 2020 - according to a survey covering 31 countries, by software security firm Sophos which released its annual report on ransomware in June.

Dissatisfaction with a country’s health care system leads to higher private expenditure

In this week's infographics, we look at private expenditure, and satisfaction with health care services within countries. Is there a link?

Private pay health care growth slower and more volatile than public/statutory growth across big 5

Both private and public/statutory expenditure on health care grew substantially over the course of the 2010s across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. But public/statutory expenditure growth was both significantly higher and less volatile.

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