Outpatient models have the ability to lower barriers for customers through location, opening hours and convenience - but what do clinicians make of changes designed to keep patients happy - and how do operators keep key staff onboard?
Regulatory changes are one of the major concerns among players in healthcare services. A busy panel of lawyers, operators and investors considered this thorny issue at HBI 2023, with a general feeling that even the strictest of regulations can provide some kind of opportunity, and that private funding is so essential a component in health care today, it cannot be legislated away.
Despite the uncertainty around regulatory reform, there are still significant opportunities in the German outpatient market, according to speakers on the ‘Investing in DACH’ panel at HBI 2023. Dentistry, which isn’t subject to the same regulatory restrictions as other outpatient specialities, presents a particularly big opportunity.
Our annual conference took place earlier this week in London. Over a jam-packed three days of HBI 2023, an impressive array of delegates from across Europe and beyond gathered in the heart of London and shared their insights into the myriad challenges and abundant opportunities the sector faces, and offered their views on how some of them might be addressed. Here are some of our key takeaways.
Italian dentistry patients are seeking cheaper treatment abroad – but HBI hears there is a big opportunity for Italian consolidators who can push prices down at home.
M&A in European health care has been almost at a standstill in H1 2023, as the chasm between the price expectations of buyers and sellers has grown. HBI asks if the prospects look better for H2 and beyond, with the help of market experts.
South Africa's parliament has voted for a new health insurance bill which will pave the way towards universal healthcare – at the expense of private care.
Ukraine has big plans to leverage the for-profit sector to rebuild its shattered health care system after the war. Oleksii Iaremenko, Head of Health Recovery at the Ukraine Ministry of Health is speaking at HBI 2023, June 19-21. Meanwhile we talk to fellow panelist Mark Hellowell, an academic at the University of Edinburgh who with the EBRD is sitting alongside Iaremenko on the Ukraine panel.
Ahead of HBI 2023 next month, we catch up with dentistry panelist Rahma Samow, EVP dental services organizations at Straumann Group, to find out more about her role and the trends surrounding oral health and their impact on enterprise DSOs globally.
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