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Innovative services tackle rising mental health need

Companies with innovative digital and inpatient solutions claim to be rallying to meet the enormous global demand for specialist mental healthcare. The sector presents a unique challenge, as demand for services still far outstrips supply. At HBI 2019's panel on psychiatry and mental health, led by consultancy firm Candesic, UK digital platform XenZone, Norwegian inpatient provider Incita and German psychiatric specialists Schoen Klinik explained their takes on the issue.
May 1, 2019

What do successful healthcare brands do?

What really makes a healthcare brand stand out and succeed? And how do operators actually achieve this? At HBI 2019 we heard from an operational expert at Siemens Healthineers, a marketing expert from one of the UK's largest private hospital groups and were given a financial steer on branding from Turkish hospital group MLP Care.
April 29, 2019

Everything digital at HBI 2019

If there was one overriding theme to come out of HBI 2019, it is that the future is digital - and in some cases, it's here. Ten per cent of Finland's population is registered to use Mehilainen's digital healthcare app, patients make 25k digital healthcare visits every month in Sweden, and 90% of the world's healthcare data has been created in the past two years.
April 25, 2019

Schoen opens its first outpatient mental health facility in London

German hospital group Schoen Kliniken has opened its first outpatient mental health facility in London, following the opening of its specialist orthopaedic clinic last summer and the acquisition of a non-profit mental health organisation in York earlier this year. We speak to the group's executive director about plans to expand its specialist psychiatric care in the UK.
April 25, 2019

Wafer-thin health care service profits at Bupa

Why did Bupa, the international health insurer which is also one of the largest health care service players outside of the USA, announce its 2018 results so quietly that HBI isn't aware of any UK daily reporting them this year? The figures show that Bupa's £3.37bn of revenue from nursing homes, hospitals, dentistry and primary care across a dozen countries, barely made money. Could this be down to its interesting governance structure?
April 23, 2019

FREE BLOG Can private operators beat not-for-profits on their turf?

When it comes to competition between the public sector and private operators in healthcare, the playing field is seldom even. Interestingly, however, the roles of David and Goliath in this particular matchup are often reversed depending on which country you look at, the extent to which public services are state-funded, and whether legislation is a help or a hindrance. Public and private are not, however, the only options.
April 18, 2019
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