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UK care homes focus on self funders as care crisis looms

Additional capacity is sorely needed in UK care homes, but many operators tell us they are only building facilities for privately paying residents. Local authority places do not pay enough to make it worthwhile, they say. HBI talks to three operators to find out more about this looming crisis. 
January 26, 2022

Polarising politician becomes German Federal Minister of Health

Germany has a new government - and a new Federal Minister of Health in Karl Lauterbach. HBI talks to two Germany-based sources who agree he is a politician embraced more by the public than his own party, and considers what his appointment might mean for the sector.
December 16, 2021

Russia kickstarts remote diagnoses

Russia has just started a new three-year pilot that allows specific providers to make remote diagnoses and prescriptions, it is one of the last countries in Europe to deregulate telehealth. 
November 25, 2021

French municipalities seek to privatise care homes

Municipality-owned French care homes are in crisis. Tired, old buildings, with low tariffs and now, following Covid, far lower occupancy rates are leading many to consider the unthinkable: privatisation.
November 24, 2021

Spain to spend €450m on health digitalisation

Spain will spend over €450m on the digitalisation of its primary care sector, building a new data network and AI as part of a new €1.5bn healthcare budget. The sector, however, says it is not enough.
November 18, 2021

Final stage of German adult care reform due in 2023

Since 2017, reform in Germany's social security law has given disabled people more money and greater control over how they spent it. The final stage, due next year, will increase the number of people eligible for benefits that help them integrate into society. Adult care providers tell HBI that it has been difficult for them to adapt.
November 9, 2021

Flagship PPP in Czech elderly care slows

Earlier this year elderly care providers in Czechia had been looking to a new public-private partnership in Brno as a model for future agreements. However, HBI hears that the project is already slowing and the market is instead looking to alternative models. HBI speaks to David Volny, CEE-focussed partner at PE firm Dynacor Capital, to find out more.
November 3, 2021
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