Two cooks working for multinational French elderly care giant Korian are being charged with manslaughter over the deaths of five elderly care residents in a food-poisoning incident which took place at one of the group’s French nursing homes in 2019.
Several hundred thousand people participated in a protest in Madrid against the regional government’s management of the health care system on Sunday, February 12.
Pan-Nordic Swedish care company Humana Group has seen its share price plummet 57% since the end of January, after Sweden’s health care inspectorate temporarily revoked its licence to provide personal assistance in Sweden.
A group of journalists from German broadcasting companies Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) has accused Germany’s private labs groups of lobbying the government in order to protect their Covid testing profits.
The UK government has set up a task force to look at increasing NHS outsourcing to the private sector, as part of its plan to increase capacity and bring down the elective care waiting list. Could this provide a boost for for-profit providers, and will it tempt them to do more NHS work?
Portugal’s competition authority has accused the country's four largest teleradiology groups of involvement in a cartel for public hospital teleradiology tenders during the years 2015 to 2018. The companies involved include Unilabs subsidiary Dr. Campos Costa, which has admitted involvement, and Affidea subsidiary Imagens Médicas Integradas, which denies involvement.
The French statutory insurer is reported to be seeking tariff cuts for the labs sector which could exceed €200m. Any cuts will be announced on Monday, September 26, in the government’s Social Security Budget.
Around 70% of German hospitals expect a loss this year, according to a survey by management consultancy Roland Berger. HBI chats with a German operator source to find out more.
France’s largest elderly care group Korian is suing one of its carer employees for ‘public insult’, after the employee wore a t-shirt with a distorted version of the Korian logo at a protest.
HBI chats with Arjan Toor, CEO of Cigna Europe, about innovation in the insurance market against a backdrop of the pandemic, and a growing crisis in mental health.