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Funding change to force Finnish groups back into preventive care

From next year Finland, one of Europe's largest occupational healthcare markets, will change funding structures to incentivise employers to spend more on preventive care and less on medical care. HBI explains the law and looks at how it will affect the market.
November 6, 2019

Interview: Anders Lönnberg, Politician, Health Care expert, Sweden

Joyously replete with war stories lost and won, Lönnberg, a combative diabetic and social democratic politician has spent the past thirty years fighting for change in health care. So what has he learnt about how health care works? And what is the solution?
November 6, 2019

Dubai Health Authority finally relaxes rules on telehealth

Two years after Dubai Health Authority (DHA) issued an order regulating telehealth, the department has finally cleared up rules around what the doctor is allowed to do in a doctor-patient teleconsultation. HBI examines how the new regulations will change the market and how they compare to elsewhere in the world.
October 18, 2019

A poacher turns gamekeeper: Austrian health care reform     

After 19 years as a health care services expert working as an investment banker, analyst and consultant, Martin Brunninger has returned to his native Austria to become director-general for healthcare and social care. In this role, he is responsible for reforming the entire health and social care system under the new reformist conservative coalition government which came to power in December 2017 and is likely to hold power for a few years. We talk to Brunninger about the likely changes and his change in role.
October 18, 2019

Government won’t win price control battle

The Indian government is unlikely to manage to control hospital pricing, despite its battle over stents and other consumables. And none of the big hospital groups are embracing the government's low-cost scheme to cover 50m families.
October 4, 2019

Italy to start services in pharmacies

From next year some private pharmacies in Italy will be able to offer basic healthcare services as policymakers hope they become the first point of access.
September 25, 2019

UK applies €1.5bn band aid to care sector in crisis

The UK government has pledged £1.5bn (€1.6bn) to local authorities' social care budgets in order to tide the care sector over for another year (which includes both nursing homes and homecare). But while councils welcome the funding, a market investor tells us it won't be sufficient to patch up a system in crisis. A provider tells us the amount is in line with what the sector expected but is a tempory solution.
September 19, 2019

Visualising the crisis in homecare staff

The ratio between nurses and personal carers and populations over 65 tells you a lot about a country's ability to provide adequate homecare. Here we track the number for eight OECD countries. Overall the ratio has dropped.
August 29, 2019

Tariff cuts and new regulation hit Swiss imaging sector

Regulatory reforms and tariff cuts for diagnostic imaging services in Switzerland have hit the sector hard, more than halving annual revenue growth for the all-private outpatient sector and limiting organic expansion. Yet the impact has still not been as bad as first feared, a source tells us.
August 27, 2019
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