Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Healthcare Reform

 

Activos presents elderly care roadmap at European Parliament

Spain-based pan-European REIT Healthcare Activos has presented a “strategic roadmap” for expanding Europe’s elderly care capacity to MEPs at the European Parliament, given that the continent’s 80+ population will roughly double by 2050. 
March 3, 2025

Swiss healthcare financing reform to benefit private outpatient sector

Switzerland has voted to overhaul how its healthcare system is financed. Inpatient and outpatient care will both be financed in the same way from 2028, which should enable private outpatient clinics to compete on a more level playing field with public hospitals, particularly in specialisms which are increasingly done on an outpatient basis, such as ophthalmology.
December 5, 2024

UK NHS’ digital transformation “most complex on the planet”

George Murgatroyd, General Manager & Vice President at the Digital Technologies division of Medtronic, the world’s largest medtech company, shared his thoughts with HBI on how far we really need to go to effectively take the NHS from “analogue” to “digital”. Plus, what the role of Medtronic and medtech is in this reform, as demand for tech solutions in healthcare rises. 
November 29, 2024

Finland wants to overhaul primary care, but may struggle to grasp the nettle

Finland’s government has announced a program to introduce a more standard primary care model in which everyone is registered with a local GP, to improve its struggling primary care system. Details of exactly how this will be implemented have yet to be decided, but it looks likely to involve more outsourcing to for-profit providers. But politics could make bold changes to the system difficult.
November 22, 2024

German government’s collapse kills MVZ reform — at least for now

Germany’s cabinet coalition government has collapsed. This means a major reform launched by (soon to be former) Health Minister Karl Lauterbach which in its original form proposed effectively banning “locust” investors from buying outpatient facilities, but had subsequently been heavily watered down, will now not be passed at all. The desire to increase restrictions on private investment may live on in future governments, however.
November 18, 2024

German states resisting hospital reform, Health Ministry threatens to withhold financing

Germany’s federal states are attempting to amend the Hospital Care Improvement Act (Krankenhausversorgungsverbesserungsgesetz, KHVVG), which was approved by Germany’s Bundestag in October but still has to be voted on by the upper house. The federal health ministry is threatening to withhold finance for the states if they block the reform.
November 8, 2024

Germany’s hospital reform passes Bundestag

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s long-awaited reform to Germany’s hospital sector is to become law after being passed by the Bundestag (the country’s legislature). The reform is likely to lead to many of the country’s smaller unspecialised inpatient facilities being either shut or converted into outpatient facilities. 
October 18, 2024
Older posts
Newer posts

Our Services

Company

Resources

Log in
Register
Log in
Register

Our Services

Company

Resources

Find Us