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New pricing engine allows Spire to capitalise on self-pay

Spire Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest private hospital groups, unveiled its new ‘pricing engine’ at their capital markets day this week - a computer programme which calculates optimal prices based on data about competitor pricing, procedures, inflation, and location, to automate price changes much quicker than was possible previously.
July 1, 2022

HBI 2022: Balance of power in MENA is shifting

There is a risk, when looking at healthcare markets in MENA, of lumping all the countries together as one - but each market has very specific requirements, and very specific characteristics. A panel at HBI 2022 chaired by Hamid Yunis, partner at global law firm McDermott Will & Emery, investigated challenges and opportunities in the region - and how rapidly the markets are changing and why overseas players now need to work harder to impress.
July 1, 2022

Fresenius looking to split off Helios and merge it with competitor

Germany-based multinational healthcare group Fresenius SE is reportedly leaning towards splitting off hospital branch Fresenius Helios and merging it with a competitor hospital chain in order to grow the business and increase its profitability. A spokesperson for the group tells us any such deal would involve Fresenius SE staying on as majority shareholder.
July 1, 2022

HBI 2022: Is healthcare financially sustainable?

Daniela Hommel, CFO at healthcare communications firm Helios Global Health, starkly laid out the problem facing the healthcare sector at HBI 2022: “Healthcare is not financially sustainable if it continues along current trends. By 2050, 25% of GDP will have to go towards healthcare if these trends continue. This is not financeable."
June 30, 2022

Why Westminster NHS systems fail

Profound pessimism about NHS plans for integrated health and with NHS systems in the UK and Canada was on display from academics at the European Health Policymakers Group which celebrated its 21st year in an afternoon looking at what the group had learnt studying Beveridge (NHS) and Bismarckian (statutory insurer) models.
June 30, 2022

Major french hospital group moves into Canada

One of the largest French hospital groups has bought two facilities in Quebec where it says it will be able to build and open more for-profit hospitals something that is now impossible in France.
June 24, 2022

Spain “too reliant” on for profits to pull the plug

The Spanish government has put forward a draft bill to strengthen its NHS system, and wean it off the private sector. A well-placed source at HBI 2022 tells us that for-profits are so entrenched and vital to Spain's NHS system that attempts to remove them would be too catastrophic, meaning a wholesale removal is highly unlikely. The bill still needs to pass the legislature before it becomes law. 
June 24, 2022
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