HBI talks to Anuschka Coovadia, CEO at South-Africa based advisory group Usizo Advisory, about payor-provider relationships in Africa and ongoing efforts to improve healthcare coverage.
How is it you can find Coco-Cola in remote villages in Africa, but not much needed healthcare supplies? HBI catches up with Pretty Mubaiwa, South-Africa-based director of corporate affairs at supply-chain expert advisory group the Africa Resource Center (Arc), to find out more.
In the increasingly competitive battle for top talent, some private hospitals in the UK - including some of the US-owned hospitals in London - are putting referral schemes worth thousands of pounds in place for doctors who refer potential colleagues to for-profit groups. Golden hellos are also being deployed. HBI speaks to London analysts and a workforce expert to find out more.
James Tughenhadt, CEO at UK nursing home group HC-One, joined it in the eye of the Covid storm. As the UK wrestles with the largest healthcare workforce strike in recent history, he sat down with HBI to discuss the importance of investing in staff, and his group's ongoing response to the staffing crisis.
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.
Tom Riall is standing down as CEO of UK-based dental group mydentist, and will take up the role of executive chairman from April 1. His replacement has been announced.
Many emerging market hospital groups seem a hot ticket at the moment. They have the stability which comes with hospitals, married to far more growth than you might expect in Europe, but the workforce war is making investors think twice. HBI speaks to two experts to learn more about how in-house training is proving to be a solution to workforce woes.
Pan-Nordic listed care provider Attendo has lost one of its contracts with the City of Stockholm to provide nursing home care. This follows the conviction of two Attendo employees earlier this week for violating whistleblower protection law when they reprimanded a carer employee for speaking to the press about the state of care in one of its homes during the height of the first Covid wave in 2020.
Michael B. Davis, the CEO of the UAE's largest private sector healthcare provider, NMC Healthcare, is standing down. His last day with the group will be December 20, and he leaves having steered the group through the most trying years in its history. Once seemingly facing financial ruin, NMC came out of administration at the end of last year.
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