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Dutch care staff awarded pay hikes to compete with temp agencies

In a bid to compete with temporary agencies, elderly care staff in the Netherlands as set to receive salary hikes of 5% this October - with another 5% increase again in 2024. HBI speaks to one Dutch sector expert to understand the reasoning behind the move and ask if will it have the desired effect.
August 3, 2023

HBI 2023 Panel: The Homecare Technology Revolution

When election seasons roll around, reforming social care is often allegedly at the top of party agendas, yet care systems across Europe remain chronically underfunded and under stress. In an HBI 2023 panel entitled ‘The homecare technology revolution’, three business founders shared how technology and their business models are disrupting the home care sector.
July 13, 2023

HBI 2023: Healthcare regulation – opportunities and risks

Regulatory changes are one of the major concerns among players in healthcare services. A busy panel of lawyers, operators and investors considered this thorny issue at HBI 2023, with a general feeling that even the strictest of regulations can provide some kind of opportunity, and that private funding is so essential a component in health care today, it cannot be legislated away.
July 7, 2023

17 things we learned at HBI 2023: Our key insights and takeaways

Our annual conference took place earlier this week in London. Over a jam-packed three days of HBI 2023, an impressive array of delegates from across Europe and beyond gathered in the heart of London and shared their insights into the myriad challenges and abundant opportunities the sector faces, and offered their views on how some of them might be addressed. Here are some of our key takeaways.
June 23, 2023

Ukraine Minister of Health Recovery to speak at HBI 2023

Ukraine has big plans to leverage the for-profit sector to rebuild its shattered health care system after the war. Oleksii Iaremenko, Head of Health Recovery at the Ukraine Ministry of Health is speaking at HBI 2023, June 19-21. Meanwhile we talk to fellow panelist Mark Hellowell, an academic at the University of Edinburgh who with the EBRD is sitting alongside Iaremenko on the Ukraine panel.
June 16, 2023

China’s new elderly care guidance will create opportunities

China has announced guidance for all provinces to establish a basic elderly care system by the year 2025, according to state-run news channel Xinhua. As the government works to address the impending demographic crisis born largely out of the country's 'one-child policy', HBI speaks to two experts from global strategy firm L.E.K. Consulting to learn more.
May 25, 2023

UK homecare group Optimo Care expanding

UK homecare provider Optimo Care is pursuing an aggressive growth strategy through acquisitions. It has just bought Colchester-based complex care provider My Life Choice. This follows the acquisition of Mayday Homecare, a provider of homecare services in Bolton and Bury, in August. The company plans to make several more acquisitions in 2023.
December 2, 2022

More funding for health and care but less for labs in French Social Security budget

The French government is to increase allocated funding for the health and care sectors overall in 2023, including hiring an additional 3,000 carers and investing €370m into a shift to care at home, but decrease funding for labs by €250m, as detailed in the 2023 Social Security budget, published on Monday September 26.
September 30, 2022
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