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Save millions, increase life expectancy, boost quality – what happens when you integrate care and healthcare

In almost all countries the provision of healthcare (hospitals, doctors) and social services (homecare, social workers, care homes) are siloed in many ways. Often the payors are different. Often, the two sides barely talk to each other. Often cultures are very different - healthcare can be very top down, for instance. But bringing ALL services together should create huge synergies, cost savings and a much stronger sense of community and empowerment.
July 17, 2019

Interview: Kevin Doyle, Managing Director, Ascenti

Defying the trope that physiotherapy is un-investable or un-scaleable, UK outfit Ascenti has grown to around €50m in sales, directly employing physiotherapists and demonstrating profitability. HBI talks to managing director Kevin Doyle, a former footballer, about Ascenti's business model, retention, payment models, leveraging digital and why physiotherapy isn't like ophthalmology or dentistry.
July 17, 2019

Home Instead plans to “raise revenue” with telemonitoring contract

Domiciliary care provider Home Instead has contracted a telemonitoring platform to provide digital services across all 200 of its UK franchises. The CEO of that platform tells us why he believes there is a compelling business case for pairing telemonitoring with domiciliary care.
July 15, 2019

TFP buys Vivaneo, plans pan-European fertility network

The Fertility Partnership (TFP) has signed an agreement with Waterland Private Equity to acquire Germany-based fertility provider Vivaneo. Nordic PE owner Impilo now has a wide base to build a truly pan-European network, and, it says a triple-digit millions of euros fertility business.
July 12, 2019

FREE BLOG PMI and out of pocket boosts for-profit oncology in UK, Romania and India

Rates of growth vary dramatically in the for-profit oncology with mature markets with large outpatient radiotherapy sectors in France and Germany being left standing by growth rates in Emerging Markets such as India according to the latest report from HBI Intelligence. Surprisingly, the UK is also growing at 10%. 
July 11, 2019

€3bn Barchester deal collapses

Macquarie has pulled out of the process to buy UK nursing home group Barchester due to volatile exchange rates triggered by Brexit, independent sources confirm. We look at the bid price and analyse why and when it failed. What will be the impact on the slew of other deals expected in the sector?
July 10, 2019

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO, Diaverum 

Will international dialysis group Diaverum IPO or sell? We catch up with its new CEO, the former boss of international imaging group Affidea. Rarely have we met such an enthusiastic leader. That may be just as well. Many wonder whether Diaverum, which has been owned by private equity house Bridgepoint since 2007, can ever be sexed up enough to attract a top price. If anyone can achieve this, it is Moulavasilis. 
July 3, 2019

FREE BLOG Integrated care won’t work without data

Integrating care to better meet patient needs should lead to huge improvements in outcomes. Individual patients can be targeted for prevention and their needs predicted. But this approach, which could also be labelled population health management, calls for sophisticated data sets.  The English NHS is trying to implement based on spreadsheets compiled by family doctors. It should learn from Finland and the USA. Internationally, there is a massive skills vacuum that no one is filling.
June 27, 2019

NHS to facilitate integrated care

The NHS in England prides itself on the strength of its primary care. This service is set to become the backbone in the delivery of integrated care with primary care doctors coming together with pharmacies, care homes, hospitals and wider social care. The aim? To deliver better care that encourages prevention and patient recorded outcomes. So far the movement feels a little hobbyist. But payment and rewards are coming into place and it has funding for the next five years. Even the massive silos between social services and healthcare are being bridged. We report from Confed19 in Manchester.
June 27, 2019

Medica shares dive after Peel Hunt note

Shares in UK-based Medica Group have dropped 19% since broker Peel Hunt issued a note to reaffirm its reduced investment rating, six weeks after it announced Synlab's Stuart Quin would be joining as CEO.
June 25, 2019
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