Demand for homecare services is vast, but recruitment constrains operators, how do you meet this challenge? An panel at HBI 2021 considered this thorny problem and others, including how to maintain quality, and whether price increases are possible.
Institutional investors are snapping up half of all new assisted living projects as they collectively up their stakes in the sector. An expert panel at HBI 2021 said that they are recognising the market as a long-term and steady investment.
There are three levels to digitalisation for healthcare providers: the foundation is clinical information systems, the middle is customer patient journey and the top is using data to understand it all. Elsan, Humanitas and Schoen Klinik talked at HBI 2021 about whether to buy or build these capabilities.
The Covid pandemic is driving smaller adult care providers in the UK to look to sell, said speakers on the HBI 2021 adult care panel. Is this an opportunity for consolidation in a rapidly growing sector?
Investors and states have ploughed capex into new proton therapy machines across Europe as the machines get smaller, the range of use cases grows and more private insurers start to cover the therapy.
There were strong opinions at HBI 2020 on the key question as to whether NHS activity in the UK will ever return to pre-pandemic levels; UK CEOs and investors at HBI 2021 were less than optimistic about its chances, but double digit private growth is filling the gap.
To date, for-profit assisted living providers have focused more or less exclusively on providing luxury retirement villages to relatively wealthy retirees. This is the case across Europe, but is particularly evident in Germany.
A fifth of homecare staff could leave the sector if COVID vaccination becomes mandatory in the UK. HBI looks to mainland Europe, where similar restrictions are in place, to find out more.
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