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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.

HBI 2017: Top three obstacles in China

China is a much-coveted market, but it’s not easy to enter and or run a business there. At HBI 2017, three operators already in the country shared their views on the three key challenges they faced.

HBI 2017: How do you recruit, train and retain qualified staff?

How do you recruit, train and retain qualified staff. This was one of the core topics of conversation at HBI 2017, as many operators admitted to struggling with HR-related issues. Salim Hasham, chairman of Kenyan hospital chain Mediheal and ex-SVP at John Hopkins, and Jill Watts, CEO of UK hospital chain BMI, offered some practical solutions.

Real solutions for retention and recruitment

Recruitment, retention and training are now the primary challenges for the healthcare services industry. The obvious solution to keeping staff - paying more – is no longer working. Private operators around the world are now fishing in a global market that's short of 15m healthcare workers. So what practical solutions are operators putting into force and what really works? We talk to 25 operators from across the world.

FREE BLOG HR: an international market and an international headache

The ability to staff a healthcare provider is perhaps the prime determinant of its success. But recruiting, retaining and training doctors, nurses and support staff has never been harder. Nurses, in particular, are slipping out of health systems like water through a sieve. And their desperate employers are resorting to desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to staff their wards.

FREE BLOG Teaching nurses and doctors – a profit centre

The world needs to train more surgeons in the next decade than have ever lived according to Dutch serial entrepreneur Jaap Maljers. So it is perhaps not surprising that investors are starting to see training in, and of itself, as a profit centre.

INTERVIEW: Kaushik Sen, CEO, Healthspring, India

Can you make money out of a primary care network in India? There is no question that, generally, primary healthcare in India is "broken". Kaushik Sen, CEO of Mumbai-based Healthspring thinks he has the answer - a new primary care network. But can it ever turn a profit and if so how? We talk to Sen about his success to date, and plans for the future.

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