Germany's healthcare landscape is shifting at a speed unseen in a generation, as the government confronts a series of challenges in modernising a healthcare market known for its strong interest and advocacy groups and its resistance to reform.
Following last week’s bruising parliamentary election defeat, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has extended a compromise to striking junior doctors amidst industrial action that has put South Korea’s healthcare services under unprecedented strain.
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company and healthcare conglomerate Aster DM Healthcare have both declared interest in investing significant amounts in India's hospital sector.
Pan-European French nursing home group emeis (formerly Orpea) has emphasised non-financial metrics such as reduced accident rates and increased satisfaction rates in its 2023 results. The company also reported 11% revenue growth for the year, although EBITDA decreased.
The voting began in the world’s largest democracy today with 970 million eligible voters. Health ranks among the top three voter priorities in this general election.
Hype over ‘telehealth’ is now largely a thing of the past. But there are ways that digitalisation can radically improve health care provision, and save significant amounts of time for both clinicians and patients. And many of the largest gains don’t require state-of-the-art software or advanced AI algorithms.
The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, has published new guidance to provide regulatory certainty on how health and social care organisations keep people properly informed about the use of their personal information.
The UK’s for-profit ophthalmology sector is heating up, with multiple groups likely to come up for sale this year. This is being driven by the long term increase in the amount of cataract surgeries the NHS is outsourcing. Meanwhile deal activity in Germany’s sector is still on pause, due to a decrease in cataract surgery post Covid.
Spire, the UK’s largest for-profit hospital group by revenue, has apologised for the death of an NHS-funded patient that the company failed to transfer quickly enough to an NHS facility for intensive care.
Log My Care, a digital platform care management platform, has secured £3 million in funding from Mercia Ventures. This new investment boosts the company's total funding to over £7 million, and is not Mercia Ventures’ first investment in the business.
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