The Greek government, facing severe staffing shortages in its National Health System (ESY), has unveiled a series of measures aimed at enticing private doctors to fill critical gaps in rural and underserved areas.
HBI’s annual conference took place last week. Almost 600 attendees — comprising CXOs of healthcare providers, investors, suppliers and advisors — travelled from 40 different countries to London for the event. Over the course of three days of roundtables, workshops and panel discussions, they explored the big issues the sector faces, and the opportunities available to the private sector in helping to solve them.
The health and wellness industry is rapidly evolving, with fitness companies expanding into healthcare services, a trend showing promise in an increasingly active market.
At last year’s conference Hedley Goldberg, Managing Director at multinational investment bank Rothschild, predicted healthcare M&A activity would begin picking up again in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024. But we’re now halfway through 2024 and there are still very few deals above €500m taking place. Goldberg is confident, however, that we have now passed through the bottom of the cycle.
Tuesday June 18th saw the latest round of industrial action within the French healthcare industry, as thousands of workers across private medical settings, from private hospitals and clinics to retirement homes, went on strike.
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s intention to ban investors from owning outpatient facilities appears to no longer have any realistic chance of being passed. Investors and advisors are consequently gearing up for a flurry of deals in H2 from pent-up demand.
Pilots to test offering UK NHS patients a choice of multiple providers, including private ones, for certain types of routine out-of-hospital care will begin in selected local areas in the autumn, in what the UK government is hailing as “the largest expansion of patient choice in the NHS in a decade”. The new options for patients could help reduce waiting lists and improve care, but risk being underutilised, as has been the fate of the NHS’ other choice-expanding initiatives to date.
Changes to the financial reporting and accounting rules for healthcare businesses in the Netherlands have come into force. But what will they mean in practice?
Germany's healthcare landscape is shifting at a speed unseen in a generation, as the government confronts a series of challenges in modernising a healthcare market known for its strong interest and advocacy groups and its resistance to reform.
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