Primary Care

Daily GP appointments can be capped in work-to-rule decision

The British Medical Association has announced that from 1 August 2024 GPs across England can start capping the number of patients they are willing to see under an immediate work-to-rule action.

August 2, 2024

Carrot and stick: Greek government offers cash incentives and threatens prescribing access amid regional workforce crisis

The Greek government, facing severe staffing shortages in its National Health System (ESY), has unveiled a series of measures aimed at enticing private doctors to fill critical gaps in rural and underserved areas.

July 26, 2024

UK government and junior doctors open strike negotiations after 1.5 million appointments are cancelled

The new government frames negotiations as the first step to fix ‘broken’ NHS. The new UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, has confirmed that the British government and the British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee have re-opened negotiations to end the long-running junior doctors strike.

July 8, 2024

Co-Med files for voluntary bankruptcy

Troubled Dutch primary care chain Co-Med is filing for voluntary bankruptcy and closing all of its clinics, marking the end of a several month long saga in which the company faced severe financial difficulties, numerous quality complaints and legal challenges from former employees.

July 4, 2024

PMI’s changing business model

Access to primary care is now the number one reason people in the UK want private medical insurance (PMI), according to data collected by UK health insurer Vitality. Other NHS countries have been seeing similar trends since Covid. Katie Tryon, Vitality’s Director of Health Strategy, spoke about how this has completely changed the PMI business model — for the better — at HBI’s conference last month.

July 3, 2024

IFM rumoured to be frontrunner in sale of Healius’ imaging division

Listed Australian primary care, pathology and diagnostics group Healius is selling its imaging branch, Lumus Imaging, as part of a restructuring plan to reduce the business complexity. According to local news sources, global institutional investment manager IFM Investors is now the frontrunner in the auction process.

June 28, 2024

HBI News Round Up, 21st June 2024

In this HBI News Round Up, we look at the outcome of Dutch primary care chain Co-Med’s bankruptcy hearing in the Netherlands, French real estate investor Transitions Europe’s entry into Spain’s care home sector, PE firm Columna Capital's latest €290m raise, Spanish hospital group Ribera Salud’s acquisition of Covadonga Hospital in Spain, the extension of the Greek government-backed EquiFund-2 programme to finance life sciences and healthcare start-ups, real estate investor PGIM Real Estate’s acquisition of UK senior housing provider Signature Senior Lifestyle, the first strike by public sector healthcare workers in Sweden in 16 years, and pan-Asian hospital group IHH's desire to enter Vietnam and Indonesia.

June 21, 2024

Healthcare investment “through the bottom of the cycle” — Goldberg (Rothschild)

At last year’s conference Hedley Goldberg, Managing Director at multinational investment bank Rothschild, predicted healthcare M&A activity would begin picking up again in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024. But we’re now halfway through 2024 and there are still very few deals above €500m taking place. Goldberg is confident, however, that we have now passed through the bottom of the cycle.

June 20, 2024

HBI News Round Up, 7th June 2024

In this HBI News Round Up, we look at the recent UK cyberattack that disrupted healthcare services at hospitals and GP clinics, Sweden's 'Care Recovery Plan', the plans for the Swedish island of Gotland propose the region become a pilot area for state intervention and Australia's five-year deal with pharmacists.

June 7, 2024

FREE BLOG How can patients be encouraged to become active consumers of healthcare?

Last week we reported on the UK government’s plan to increase the options available to NHS England patients for certain types of out-of-hospital care, in what it hailed as “the largest expansion of patient choice in the NHS in a decade”.

May 24, 2024

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