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HBI 2022: Money alone isn’t the solution to the workforce crisis

There is a global war for talent being keenly fought. Workforce is one of - if not the - most pressing problems in the healthcare sector. Providers at HBI 2022 uniformly fretted over the need to acquire, and retain staff, and shared their views on how best to do this.

HBI 2022: How to tackle the primary care capacity crisis

Primary care is facing major capacity issues across multiple European countries, but digital innovations are already shaking up the sector. Speakers at the Primary Care Plus session at HBI 2022 explained how a digital and data-enabled move away from synchronous care can free up clinicians' precious time.

3R buys in Switzerland and looks at France

Naxicap-owned imaging group 3R Réseau Radiologique Romand has bought IRIS Radiologie and is eyeing up France. Germany and Italy are also possibles, HBI hears.

Swiss labs suffer 10% cut, more may follow

Switzerland has chopped its diagnostic lab prices by 10% in a move that is billed as saving CHf 140m (€141). There could well be further crackdowns following a publication highlighting the massive differences between Swiss prices and those in France, Germany and the Netherlands.

New pricing engine allows Spire to capitalise on self-pay

Spire Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest private hospital groups, unveiled its new ‘pricing engine’ at their capital markets day this week - a computer programme which calculates optimal prices based on data about competitor pricing, procedures, inflation, and location, to automate price changes much quicker than was possible previously.

HBI 2022: Rosy future for dentistry, despite resurfacing threats

Pre-Covid, dentistry was seen as one of the hot tickets of healthcare services, largely unconsolidated, and attracting huge interest, not least from private equity. Covid took its toll but as the threat from the pandemic recedes in Europe, the focus has shifted back onto the opportunities in the sector – and onto other, longer-lasting problems like staffing, training, and the threat of recession. Despite these threats, according to a panel at HBI 2022, the future for the sector looks bright.

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