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Nurse migration over time

This week we take a look at nurse migration, with an infographic that shows the number of active foreign-trained nurses in a variety of European countries in both 2009, and 2019.

HBI’s most searched sectors and terms of 2021

What were you searching for in 2021? According to our word cloud, collated from the 500 most searched for terms on our website last year, it was largely - though not exclusively - the sectors most affected by Covid.

HBI: Most wanted

As the year draws to a close, we thought we would take a look at what our readers were searching for most on our website this year and find out which companies were of greatest interest – or to put it another way, HBI’s most wanted. Our word cloud is a visual representation of our […]

Effect of Covid on waiting times for elective surgery

Long waiting times for elective surgery have been a problem across much of Western Europe for years, but Covid has unequivocally compounded this, opening the door to outsourcing to for-profits to get waiting times down.

Residential propco deals blow up post-COVID

This week HBI looks at the volumes of property deals at Europe's three biggest healthcare REITs by the number of sites purchased. More residential care providers are selling off properties than the year before the pandemic hit. 

When have e-prescriptions become mandatory in Europe?

This week HBI looks at when e-prescriptions became mandatory across most of Europe's big healthcare markets. Surprisingly, France and Germany look to be years behind other 'less developed' healthcare systems.

Not-for-profits dominate Europe’s adult care

Adult social care, a major sector in the UK and Nordics in particular, has traditionally been dominated by the not-for-profit sector in Europe. In this week's infographic, we look at the for-profit, not-for-profit/public split across select countries in Europe.

Chinese spend more cash on healthcare than France spends overall

This week the OECD has released new data on healthcare expenditures for 2019 across several major economies. It shows some interesting nuggets, like how the Chinese spend more out-of-pocket than the entirety of France spends on healthcare and that Hungary has one of the lowest healthcare spendings in the world. 

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