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Mexico’s private hospitals enlisted in fight after occupancy plummets

Occupancy in Mexico's private hospital sector has plummeted due to COVID-19, a local operator tells HBI. Much of that spare capacity will go towards treating public non-COVID patients after a deal was struck with the government in an effort to prepare for an incoming wave of infected patients.
April 22, 2020

Lawyers expect spike in outsourcing disputes and negligence litigation

The COVID-19 epidemic may see commercial disputes regarding NHS UK outsourcing deals and increased litigation against care homes and hospitals from relatives of deceased loved ones, partners at law firm Addleshaw Goddard tell HBI. This is likely to be true across geographies.
April 21, 2020

Portugal’s private hospitals and state agree price for COVID-19 care

Portugal's private hospitals have agreed terms with the state to provide publicly-funded COVID-19 hospital treatment, including pathways and bundled tariffs for both minor and serious inpatient episodes. Will the market's recent high annual growth be maintained in the post-crisis period?
April 16, 2020

Covid: The double whammy – who will be left standing?

In a recent paper on the medtech outlook for Europe, UBS, looked at how Singapore and Toronto bounced back from pandemics. Pent up demand simply led to double growth rates the year after. But Covid is two things: a pandemic coupled to a steep recession, almost certainly worse than 2008. We look at what this means for a sector where private equity has often geared up to the hilt.
April 16, 2020

Booking data shows outpatient has all but stopped

Patient footfall for outpatient care across the world has all but stopped. Exclusive data from DocPlanner shows which specialities have seen the biggest drop in appointments booked and where telemedicine is really picking up some of the slack. We assess this against outpatient volumes in Singapore during SARS to see when it might pick up.
April 16, 2020

COVID-19 may force re-think of German hospital ‘rationalisation’

Germany's arguably excessive hospital capacity, much of it in small regional hospitals, has proven an invaluable asset during coronavirus. A senior hospital executive tells us this may change policy conversations of the last 2-3 years around the need to trim the sector down, though paradoxically the crisis may also send the sector further into deficit.
April 16, 2020
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