Administrators have been appointed for a UK-based cosmetic surgery group after UK tax authority HMRC filed a High Court petition to wind up the company. The business, however, still continues, under a slightly different name.
Funding reform in Ukraine has failed to bolster the country's primary care sector. An HBI analysis of NHS contracts shows public funding of Kyiv's for-profit clinics dropped 60% between 2019-20.
The dire state of the German hospital sector is likely to see 50 bankruptcies in 2020, of which half could be privatised. German banks are getting jittery about the billions of euros they have lent to now loss-making hospitals.
One of Finland's regions has taken a stand against continued SOTE delays by opting to outsource its health and social services through a joint venture worth up to €1bn with a single operator. It's the first substantial tender since new outsourcing tenders were banned in 2016 - could other regions follow?
A specialist developer is planning to turn an underground carpark under a central London park near Harley Street into a four-storey subterranean healthcare and wellness development. Provisional talks with private hospital and diagnostic operators have been held, while wellness and leisure operators could be housed under the same roof. HBI talks exclusively to the team at Reef Group and its partners about the plan to transform historic Cavendish Square.
Private providers in Oman are still awaiting the introduction of mandatory insurance a year after the country's Capital Market Authority said it would be introduced. Experts suggest a new timeline of Q2 2020 but could construction news also point to further problems in both the public and private healthcare sectors?
Nearly three years after the CEO of Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) declared it "almost bankrupt", its President claims that his party has cleared the GHS1.2bn ($200m) debt. The country isn't alone in having stacked up debt: HBI looks at the arrears of NHI schemes across emerging markets.
In December 2018, B2B digital health player Doctrin started to integrate its solution into Capio's primary care health centres in Sweden. One year on it shares data with HBI that shows significant reductions in frequent attendances, increase in productivity and reduction in waiting times.
HBI hears the market for manager-level medical checkups is worth around €1.5bn each year in Germany but this is predominately private pay. The occupational healthcare market feels like it's being held back by reimbursement models that don't support wider preventive care.
From next year Finland, one of Europe's largest occupational healthcare markets, will change funding structures to incentivise employers to spend more on preventive care and less on medical care. HBI explains the law and looks at how it will affect the market.
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