Digital health companies across Europe have put out press releases left, right and centre about new free solutions designed to help with the coronavirus. What's the end goal?
UK homecare group Cera Care has launched a mainly online learning platform with the aim of recruiting 10,000 new care workers. It claims that new hires from retail or hospitality can be trained to pass government qualifications in 10 days. If it achieves the target it will grow its workforce six-fold.
COVID-19 is forcing European laboratories to re-think where they test patients. Some are working with authorities to set up new ‘drive-through’ testing points, while others have closed more than half of their drawing points.
Public elective surgeries are being cancelled across Europe, replaced in part by additional for-profit outsourcing, and governments are buying private hospital capacity for an expected flood of COVID-19 cases. In some countries, the stop on electives is across both public and private sectors. HBI investigates.
HBI hears that global healthcare insurer and operator Bupa is letting go of a significant number of its dentistry-focussed M&A and integration team. The decision follows huge write-offs in 2019 in its UK dentistry business and Australian care homes.
As climate concern grows and the business world responds, energy-efficiency and sustainability have become strategic priorities for some private hospital operators, helping them win business, cut costs and arguably increase quality through "green hospitals", they claim. But internationally, incentives are a very mixed picture and those cutting emissions fastest are not where you might think.
European-focused PE firm Nordic Capital is reportedly buying SpaMedica, the UK's largest cataract surgery provider, in a deal that values the ophthalmic group at around £300m.
In the second of our two-part deep dive into how COVID-19 is hitting healthcare markets across EMEA, we ask how hospitals are coping with spiralling staff sickness and a flood of patients, and whether the care and dialysis sectors can stay afloat given the risk the virus poses to their most vulnerable patients.
An initiative around barcoding all theatre items and personnel has helped UK NHS Hospital Trusts monitor and control quality at the consultant and product-level and achieve nearly double-digit savings on theatre spend. We speak to the organisation supplying the initiative's data standards, which says private sector hospitals are increasingly interested in initiatives like it.
Bupa, the global healthcare insurer and healthcare operator went from pre-tax profits of £502m in 2018 to a loss of £78m in 2019, thanks mainly to huge write-offs in its UK dentistry business and Australian care homes. But stripping out write-offs, underlying profitability still plunged 31%. Revenue rose just 4%. Why, and what does this tell us about Bupa and its future?
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