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Psychiatry and Mental Health

 

Mental Health: Presentation, Michelle Tempest, Candesic

Psychiatry is changing fast. Firstly, several US players have recently acquired in the UK and are looking to build international businesses. Secondly, residential operators are building outpatient networks. Thirdly, the web is delivering an ever expanding range of services from addiction to psychoanalysis. Michelle, who is a psychiatrist herself, looks at these trends and asks what private psychiatry will look like in a decade in Europe and in Emerging Markets

Why are investors reluctant to invest in mental health? 

There's a European healthcare sector which is ripe for investment, where demand is set to outstrip supply, and where the public sector is content for private operators to help. So why isn't there more interest in building and running psychiatric clinics? Healthcare Europa speaks to Dr Michelle Tempest, partner at Candesic, a bespoke health and social care management consultancy.

FREE BLOG What do you do when medical professionals go off the tracks?

Every year, some 12,000 medical and care professionals are subject to serious investigation by the three largest professional bodies in the UK alone. So how do you deal with the doctor or nurse who starts abusing colleagues, who has sex with a patient, who makes mistakes or lies on their CV? We talk to Jonathan Coe, who runs The Clinic for Boundaries Studies, which offers an intensive course to get perpetrators to open their eyes, take responsibility and change their behaviour.

How do you design a patient centric hospital?

The award-winning New Psychiatric Hospital (GAPS) in Denmark claims to turn the waffle of patient centricity into bricks and mortar. Healthcare Europa asks Søren Daugbjerg, CEO of Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, one of the practices behind the project, about his take on hospital design - and asks whether there is any evidence that the design of a hospital can actually improve a patient's health.

French care home group plans 4,000 beds network

Clineo, a French elderly care group based in southern France, is completing the acquisition of two nursing homes in Spain totalling 390 beds – and expects to own a network of 4,000 beds in the next three years. Its founder Hervé Le Bocq talks to Healthcare Europa.

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