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Report: The future of tech in healthcare

A cross between an Apple keynote and a TED Talk, the Health 2.0 Europe conference in Barcelona brought a touch of California to the old continent and was an opportunity to look at the latest range of healthcare apps. We report on the weird and wacky.
May 28, 2015

Care UK sells off three divisions

Care UK has sold its learning disabilities division to specialist care provider Lifeways Group, two weeks after the sale of its mental health unit to Partnerships in Care. Leonid Shapiro, managing partner and founder at Candesic, says the group is reshaping its strategy.
May 21, 2015

UK private-public status quo stable despite election

When the Conservative party unexpectedly won a majority in the UK election earlier this month, there were fears that a blue government would lead to mass privatisation of the NHS. That is unrealistic, says David Hare, chief executive of the NHS Partners Network team, which represents private sector operators.
May 21, 2015

Conservative victory eases fears of private operators

The Conservative Party won a substantial victory over Labour in yesterday’s UK election and has gained a majority. The incoming government faces an NHS forecasting an £800 million funding deficit this year. The impact of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act has dominated the election debate, but further options for reform were always limited, and the need for productivity increases a major constraint.
May 8, 2015

The re-shoring of dental tech

Dental tech work can be anywhere between 10% to 50% of a dentist’s sales, estimates Per Rehnberg, CEO of Colosseum Smile. For some time the trend throughout Europe has been to send this work to places like China or India where the prices are as much as four times lower. But the tides are changing; dental tech is coming back to Europe.
April 30, 2015

Younger generation buying into dentistry brands

Dentistry is a consumer brand; and in this digital age marketing and customer communication is the same for dentists as it is for retailers and supermarkets says Justin Ash, CEO of Oasis Healthcare at Healthcare Europa 2015. He says there are clear differences between how the under 30s and the over 50s relate to dentistry brands.
April 30, 2015

Inbound UK medical tourists bring in over £275m

London’s private and NHS hospitals make sales of around £275m a year from inbound medical tourists – defined as foreigners travelling to London explicitly for treatment. Keith Pollard, managing editor of the International Medical Travel Journal (IMTJ), rounded up its inaugural summit in London last week with some fascinating statistics about the state of medical tourism in the UK.
April 24, 2015

2m customers for cloud-based Patients Know Best

Patients Know Best (PKB), a cloud-based platform that puts patients in control of managing their online medical records, has grown from a 2008 UK start-up to being active in eight countries. It claims to have succeeded where Google, Microsoft and the NHS failed. We speak to founder Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli who claims he will have 2m patients by the end of 2015.
April 23, 2015

UK on brink of care home bed shortage despite private growth

There will be massive unmet demand for nursing home beds in England according to a new report from advisers Healthcare Property Consultants. A perfect storm of an ageing population, low public tariffs and competition for land will lead to big shortages. We spoke to HPC director Nigel Newton Taylor about the report and the state of care homes in England.
April 23, 2015
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