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FREE BLOG Healthcare — Europe’s electoral elephant in the room

“The ultimate election year” is how Time Magazine heralded 2024 in its new year coverage. 64 countries have or will be going to the polls this year, from the world’s largest democracy, India, to Kiribati, one of the smallest.

June 28, 2024

FREE BLOG Major topics and trends discussed at HBI 2024

HBI’s annual conference took place last week. Almost 600 attendees — comprising CXOs of healthcare providers, investors, suppliers and advisors — travelled from 40 different countries to London for the event. Over the course of three days of roundtables, workshops and panel discussions, they explored the big issues the sector faces, and the opportunities available to the private sector in helping to solve them.

June 20, 2024

FREE BLOG Change is the driver of opportunity — a new venue, new volume and new value

As an event organiser, there is always a growing sense of anticipation that builds to a crescendo before the start of an event. This is followed by the acute excitement during its delivery, and, all being well, a sense of achievement and value delivered to bask in (however briefly) afterwards.

June 14, 2024

FREE BLOG Guest Post: Embedding quality care into the culture of emerging market health

It is tempting to think of universal health coverage as a quantitative endeavour since, after all, the goal is to bring sustainable and accessible health care to more and more of the planet’s people. But while numbers and quantity matter, the mission is about quality at its heart.

June 4, 2024

FREE BLOG Guest Post: Building ethical governance into emerging market health care

Few relationships embody and require trust quite like the one between patients and doctors. Every minute of every day, all over the planet, people put their lives in the hands of health care professionals and the facilities they work in.

May 31, 2024

FREE BLOG How can patients be encouraged to become active consumers of healthcare?

Last week we reported on the UK government’s plan to increase the options available to NHS England patients for certain types of out-of-hospital care, in what it hailed as “the largest expansion of patient choice in the NHS in a decade”.

May 24, 2024

FREE BLOG How do you get patients to do what they say they will? Tastier carrots or bigger sticks?

The UK this week reported that people on long-term sick leave or classed as economically inactive has risen to 2.8 million, up 300,000 on the previous year. This statistic came fast on the heels of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest controversial speech calling for an end to the UK’s ‘sick note culture’ in a call to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work.

May 17, 2024

FREE BLOG Are retirement villages still the future of elderly care?

Back in 2021 there was a definite sense amongst those involved in Europe’s elderly care sector that investment into retirement villages was set to explode. But in the last couple of years investment into new retirement village sites has stalled. Is this just a temporary blip, or are there more fundamental barriers preventing development in the sector?

May 10, 2024

FREE BLOG Optum and Walmart fail at telehealth and low-cost care — what does this teach us?

This week saw the news that retail giant Walmart is shutting down its 51 centres and its virtual care offering launched in 2020, and that insurer UnitedHealth’s Optum Virtual Care service was also being shut down after launching in 2021.

May 3, 2024

FREE BLOG Patients demand innovation, and health systems need it

A recent meeting with a private equity investor went down the path of minimally invasive surgery and the incredibly fascinating innovation in implantable medtech.

April 26, 2024

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