We sat down with Michael Morley, Partner at consulting firm McKinsey, at our annual conference last month, to discuss four new sources of revenue growth that healthcare providers are exploring.
Access to primary care is now the number one reason people in the UK want private medical insurance (PMI), according to data collected by UK health insurer Vitality. Other NHS countries have been seeing similar trends since Covid. Katie Tryon, Vitality’s Director of Health Strategy, spoke about how this has completely changed the PMI business model — for the better — at HBI’s conference last month.
As the UK’s political parties enter the final straight for next Thursday’s general election, the outcome is all but certain, with polling strongly indicating that the Labour Party is set to return to power for the first time since 2010 — at current projections with the largest parliamentary majority in British history.
Speakers at HBI’s first ever panel on the veterinary sector made a compelling case for the sector’s investability to HBI 2024 attendees. Demand is resilient and growing, supported by a growing number of pets as well as greater expenditure from pet owners as the range of services expands. Demand growth is also supported by greater price flexibility than human healthcare typically has in most European countries. And almost all the continent’s markets remain unconsolidated.
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.
Saudi Arabia's $1 trillion + futuristic megaproject NEOM is not just aiming to build something unprecedented from an engineering, architectural and urban design perspective. Its plans for shaking up healthcare are equally radical. We spoke to Mahmoud AlYamany, NEOM’s Sector Head, Health and Wellbeing, to learn more about this.
Pan-European Spanish healthcare real estate investor Healthcare Activos has launched a new investment fund worth €650 million. This is the REIT’s second fund, and will, in contrast to the first fund, be primarily focused on making investments outside of Spain and Portugal. Jorge Guarner, Activos’ President and Founder, tells us more.
Two weeks ago Germany’s cabinet government approved Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s hospital reform. The current watered-down reform’s key feature is a proposal to move the sector’s reimbursement model away from fee-per-service payments, purportedly to reduce the incentive to overtreat. However, experts tell us the real motivation is still to shut down smaller unspecialised hospitals. Will it succeed in doing so?
The UK Labour Party this week unveiled its latest election pledge — to clear the NHS backlog of patients waiting over 18 weeks for treatment within the first term of a Labour government. The party expects this to involve making greater use of the private sector.
Last week we reported on the UK government’s plan to increase the options available to NHS England patients for certain types of out-of-hospital care, in what it hailed as “the largest expansion of patient choice in the NHS in a decade”.
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