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.
The BBC’s Panorama team has found that there are private ADHD clinics in the UK that are prescribing for ADHD based on just a short and, it says, unreliable online assessment.
HBI speaks to Simon Miller, Headspace’s international partner lead, about the company’s long-term vision to create a digital mental health platform offering a personalised service across a wide continuum of care.
Last month, thought leaders from private healthcare systems across the globe gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, to network, share their findings, and consider how emerging markets can become more resilient. HBI was there, and these are our key themes and takeaways.
Healios, which provides digital mental health and neurodevelopmental services for young people and children in the UK, is planning major expansion in the UK in the face of unprecedented demand.
French pan-European elderly care giant Korian has acquired Grupo 5, a Spanish provider of mental health services, from Spanish private equity firm Corpfin Capital, after receiving the green light from Spain’s competition authority. The acquisition is part of Korian’s strategy to develop its health care offering and to build a pan-European mental health platform.
The slump in healthcare listed stocks and downward valuations of private businesses are encouraging potential buyers to examine enticing European healthcare enterprises.
Ambea Group, a major quoted Scandinavian care provider, has been actively buying social care companies in Denmark. We look at why Ambea has been buying in a country which has a history of hostility to for-profit health care and now has a leftist, Social Democrat government.
At the Psychiatry and Mental Health session at HBI 2022 we heard from Adrienne Rivlin (partner at strategy consultancy LEK) about how psychedelic therapy promises to radically transform the mental health sector. But how ready is the sector (not to mention society) for the shift in mindset that this will require?
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