Healthcare Reform

International hospital market holding firm against inflation and workforce crisis

Hospital groups across Europe are looking at the best ways to deal with inflation and the workforce crisis – and new payment models are helping. HBI looks at the half-year results of three listed groups this week to find out what this looks like in the UK, Italy and Switzerland.

September 15, 2023

Commissioners hurt UK care homes

UK nursing homes are facing record fines and the prospect of financial failure, but one market expert argues that providers shouldn’t be shouldering the burden alone. HBI investigates who or what exactly is to blame and what more can be done to alleviate pressures and improve the quality of care.

September 6, 2023

German doctors demand more money as outpatient sector “faces collapse”

Germany’s National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) has put a series of demands to the Ministry of Health. These include sustainable, inflation-linked financing, more training and digitisation and less bureaucracy. The group says that if its demands are not implemented the outpatient sector is at risk of collapsing.

August 25, 2023

Scottish care homes “closing at the rate of one a week”

HBI hears care homes in Scotland are closing at a rate of one a week due to underfunding and an inability to find staff, sending alarm bells across the sector. HBI speaks to two market experts to find out more.

August 24, 2023

Finnish outsourcing will drive double digit revenue boost

Finland’s for-profit health and care sector is ecstatic as an invigorated push for public-to-private outsourcing could see a double-digit boost to revenues.

August 18, 2023

Germany can’t save small hospitals from insolvency

German health minister Karl Lauterbach’s reforms may not save all small, struggling hospitals from a natural demise after all, despite previous claims to the contrary.

August 17, 2023

Stalemate for the only solution to doctor shortages

An innovative distance learning platform that trains doctor for just €100,000 has frozen its 2023 intake thanks to the intransigence and obfuscation of the medical profession. Malta-based EDU, accredited by Maastricht University Hospital, has faced four years of delay in accreditation from the Medical Association of Malta despite being able to demonstrate that its doctors outperform those trained in university hospitals.

August 11, 2023

Does Europe need a more harmonised health care system?

HBI speaks with three Germany-based contacts at strategy consultancy L.E.K. about the case for a more harmonised health care policy across the EU.

August 4, 2023

Is Macron pushing for ‘stealth nationalisation’ of French nursing homes?

French president Emmanuel Macron is facing accusations of tacitly pushing a policy of ‘stealth nationalism’ in French nursing homes. HBI speaks to market experts to find out more.

August 4, 2023

Saudi crackdown will shut businesses as new path paved for investors

The Saudi Arabian government is overhauling the regulatory regime governing its health care sector to make way for the huge amounts of private investment needed to deliver ambitious growth targets. As well as simplifying laws governing private ownership and foreign investment, it is increasing auditing checks on providers - and closing hundreds of sites that don’t meet health standards.

July 21, 2023

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