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UK government launches digital health strategy

The UK government has launched a new strategy for the use of digital technology and data in the health and social care sectors. Health secretary Sajid Javid gave a speech at the HealthTech Summit in London on the day of the launch about how the strategy will shake up the sector.
June 16, 2022

Mediclinic rejects £3.4bn takeover bid from consortium led by largest shareholder

Multinational South African hospital group Mediclinic has rejected a proposal for a possible cash offer of £3.4bn for the company’s entire share capital. The proposal came from a consortium comprising Mediclinic’s current largest shareholder, South African investment holding firm Remgro, and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s second largest container shipping provider.
June 10, 2022

Rutherford Health to go into liquidation

The for-profit oncology group which holds roughly half the UK's proton beam capacity and has invested over £240m in capex is to go into liquidation, thanks to the pandemic and NHS indifference. In the UK just 1% of acute cancer patients get proton compared to 10% in Europe and 20% in the USA. What is likely to happen next?
June 6, 2022

NHS primary care dissatisfaction hits record high, pushing patients private

Increasing numbers of patients are choosing to pay for primary care in the UK, driven by record levels of dissatisfaction with NHS primary care. Patients appear to be especially frustrated about access - and a lack of GPs in Germany and France is also creating problems. HBI chats with primary care operators to find out more.
June 1, 2022

UK parliamentary committee to examine NHS’ progress on digitalisation

A UK parliamentary committee headed by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched an enquiry into digital transformation in the NHS. MPs will look at how digital technology is currently being used and consider what could be improved. This will include an evaluation of possibilities for greater cooperation between the NHS and the private sector and how this could boost innovation.
May 27, 2022

Interview: Zeinab Ardeshir, CEO, PillSorted

Zeinab Ardeshir has worked in pharmacy for 17 years in multiple countries, but although she has generally enjoyed this experience, she found that a lot of her time was spent on mundane repetitive tasks which seemed like a waste for someone with her medical knowledge.
May 26, 2022

IDH sells DD Group

The owner of UK-based dental specialist IDH, Palamon Capital, is selling DD Group (formerly Dental Directory), its UK and Ireland-based dental and medical aesthetics distributer and service provider. Palamon says this concludes phase one of its investment plan to return IDH to a pure-play dental service.
May 24, 2022

Inflation hikes up care home costs

How will the care home sector cope with the wave of inflation now hitting it as staff, energy costs and rents soar? We talk to operators and advisers across Europe.
May 20, 2022

Interview, Sneh Khemka, SimplyHealth

HBI speaks with Sneh Khemka, HBI 2022 panellist and CEO of UK-based cash plan group Simplyhealth, to hear why he thinks it is time for groups like his to step out of the shadows.
May 19, 2022

European nursing homes – a five market comparison

This week we take a closer look at how the elderly residential nursing home market stacks up, specifically in five major European markets - France, Spain, Germany, Italy and UK. Here we compare the total, and for profit and public/not-for-profit market revenues, and look at where the international operators have the largest revenues. These figures are a snapshot of the position based on revenues in 2020 taken from our nursing homes reports in HBI Intelligence and the operator database.
May 13, 2022
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