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Healthcare spending is expected to be resilient

Using data from Jefferies US and European Research, this week's infographic asks to what extent consumers across five major economies (USA, Italy, Germany, UK, France and Italy) see healthcare spend as a significant area for spending cuts.

The current state of interest and inflation rates

The current macroeconomic environment is slowing down health care services M&A, as inflation eats into margins and debt financing dries up. In this week's infographic we look at the state of interest rates and inflation rates in major economies across the world.

The UK care home sector

Following our brand new intelligence report on the UK elderly care sector, we look at the size of the for-profit and public/non-profit sectors.

Top 10 EMEA labs groups made almost €8bn extra revenue in 2021

It's no secret that the diagnostic labs sector benefitted immensely from testing during the Covid pandemic. But now that 2021 revenue figures are available for many of the largest groups, it is clear that the scale of the testing windfall has been larger than anyone in the sector imagined.

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.

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.

FREE BLOG Are UK NHS dentists facing extinction?

On July 5, 1948, Aneurin Bevan established the core principles of the UK NHS, designed to meet the needs of all, and free at the point of delivery. Dentistry has been walking its own path for some time now, however, and NHS dentistry is unequivocally in crisis.

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