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Partnership for Prevention: Presentation, Jeanette Ryan, GSK – HBI 2018

Partnership for Prevention is a revolutionary preventive healthcare programme for all GSK employees and their benefits-eligible family members, regardless of role and location. It enables access, at little or no cost, to up to 40 evidence-based preventive health services, including immunisations, cancer screening, preventive exams, prenatal care and tobacco cessation, as well as treatment options for conditions such as HIV and cardiovascular disease. All services were chosen based on evidence-based medicine and recommendations from the World Health Organisation. Jeanette has been with the programme since its start which has now been rolled out to well over 100,000 employees, plus their families, in approximately 100 countries. She walks us through GSK’s rationale for a preventive healthcare programme of this scale, the dynamics required to work with partners for successful implementation and how GSK engages with employees on health and wellbeing.

Interview: Ben Faircloth, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting

Dentistry is flavour of the month in healthcare services with consolidation taking off right across Europe and private equity placing big bets on the concept of national and even multinational chains. Ben Faircloth, who has advised some of the largest players in Europe, tells us what really makes these businesses work and which models are set to prosper.

For-profit medical education – a survey

Public sector education is failing to build the nursing and doctor capacity that is needed around the world.  We talk to academic Kevin Kinser at PennState University in the USA who specialises in tracking the for-profit tertiary education sector about the sector in general and about healthcare specifically.  This is part of a series of articles on medical training and the private sector. 

Justin Ash joins Spire as CEO

Spire has appointed Justin Ash, the former head of Oasis, the dentist chain sold to Bupa for vast sums as its new CEO. What does that tell us? 

“We can meet the needs of the baby boom generation with today’s medical capacity”

That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.

Can you build a business on educating doctors and nurses?

Can you make a successful business educating doctors and nurses? You can if the growth of the world’s largest higher education network, Laureate, is anything to go by. Healthcare Nova catches up with Dr. Francisco Gutierrez, senior vice president of medicine and health sciences.

Building an international hospital group in Asia – Dr Azad Moopen, Aster DM

Over 30 years Dr Moopen has built Aster DM from scratch into one of the largest groups in the GCC and India, moving into hospitals, pharmacies, diagnostics and outpatient. He talks about the challenges and lessons of the last five years as the group has expanded internationally and reflects on future business models and markets ahead of the group's listing on the Mumbai stock exchange.

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