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UK must urgently develop diagnostic centres to meet surging demand

The UK National Health Service (NHS) should unquestionably boost outsourcing to counter the acute shortage of diagnostic centres in the country, according to a panel at HBI 2022 focused on "Building Capacity and Care Pathways through Partnerships".

July 15, 2022

Providers criticise Lancet study on correlation between NHS outsourcing and excess deaths

A new study published in the Lancet showing a correlation between increased outsourcing by the UK's NHS to for-profit providers with increased treatable deaths has been rubbished by several in the independent healthcare industry.

July 14, 2022

Interview with Kate Newhouse, COO and Executive Director of Kooth

HBI caught up with Kate Newhouse, COO and executive director of digital mental health care group Kooth, before her appearance on the mental health panel at HBI2022.

July 8, 2022

HBI 2022: Examining the emergence and necessity of affordable private care solutions

NHS systems in the UK and Spain are struggling. L.E.K. Consulting’s breakfast seminar at HBI 2022 examined the emergence - and necessity - of affordable private care as part of the solution.

July 8, 2022

HBI 2022: Money alone isn’t the solution to the workforce crisis

There is a global war for talent being keenly fought. Workforce is one of - if not the - most pressing problems in the healthcare sector. Providers at HBI 2022 uniformly fretted over the need to acquire, and retain staff, and shared their views on how best to do this.

July 8, 2022

HBI 2022: Partnering with university hospitals

University hospitals and their twinned research institutes are the mainstay of health care delivery in EMEA. Their approach to partnering is becoming increasingly sophisticated. Here we look at what they want and at winning partnering strategies that create real value and innovation.

July 7, 2022

New pricing engine allows Spire to capitalise on self-pay

Spire Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest private hospital groups, unveiled its new ‘pricing engine’ at their capital markets day this week - a computer programme which calculates optimal prices based on data about competitor pricing, procedures, inflation, and location, to automate price changes much quicker than was possible previously.

July 1, 2022

HBI 2022: Dementia care clearly insufficient

The inexorable rise in the need for dementia care dominated the elderly care panel discussion at HBI 2022, whilst the global staffing crisis was also, inevitably, on the agenda. Is enough being done to prepare for the sharp rise in dementia patients expected in the coming years, and how are groups dealing with the war for talent?

July 1, 2022

Why Westminster NHS systems fail

Profound pessimism about NHS plans for integrated health and with NHS systems in the UK and Canada was on display from academics at the European Health Policymakers Group which celebrated its 21st year in an afternoon looking at what the group had learnt studying Beveridge (NHS) and Bismarckian (statutory insurer) models.

June 30, 2022

IHPN: Independent hospitals under used for NHS backlog

Independent hospital providers in the UK say its NHS is not sufficiently using its capacity to deal with the elective surgery backlog, despite saying it would do so.

June 24, 2022

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