West Europe's for-profit hospital market is set to shrink by at least 10% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research done for the HBI Intelligence Centre.
Spain and Israel's General Practitioners (GPs) rank among the worst paid in the OECD when accounting for purchasing power. HBI looks at a new healthcare salary index to compare pay across the world.
Elective cancellations mean that just 40% of Life Healthcare's beds are occupied and that imaging volumes for its UK subsidiary Alliance Medical Group (AMG) are down 65%. The latter will be paid average revenue by NHS England for March and April.
Belgium, where health ministry figures show 53% of the country's 7,594 COVID-19 deaths have occurred in care homes is mass-testing all residents and has already completed over 100,000 tests. We are told that there are some surprising results. The aim is to enable homes to build COVID-free operations so that they can start replenishing.
The Induction Switch app is used by the majority of hospital doctors in the UK but its owner has only very recently started generating revenue a year after launching on the AIM. That's despite a userbase stretching South Africa, Australia and the USA. Its CEO, an entrepreneur who has founded no less than three health tech companies, talks to HBI about how it plans to turn free-using customers into revenue-generating customers.
Anecdotally, care homes across Europe are 'the new epicentre' of the coronavirus but most states still don't have any grasp on how much of the sector is infected. HBI collates reports to assess what the real impact of the coronavirus is across Western Europe. It suggests that rates could be under-reported by 80%.
Much of the world’s workforce is sat working from home and many others are out on the frontline, either in hospitals or retail. That is presenting new potential customers for a host of online mental health services across Europe as they seek to plug the gap where the public sector has pulled back. Employers, health care providers and individuals – including children stuck at home – are now bumping up demand.
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.
HBI talks to Tony Veverka, CEO of cosmetic surgery specialist Transform Hospital Group, about his business, and the market pre-and (speculatively) post-COVID.
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