Can rebranding the healthcare business help save lives?
By Rasha Kawar
At best, mainstream healthcare services offer ‘sick care’ rather than better healthcare. Would things change if we looked at them like any other business, and went for a rebrand
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Bill Gates highlights science as sector of opportunity for future entrepreneurs
In a conversation covering his foundations” annual letter, Microsoft founder Bill Gates picked science as the area most likely to present the greatest opportunities for business builders.
UK digital healthcare service Babylon operating on AI with $60m investment
Babylon, a British digital healthcare service, has raised a $60m investment that will go towards the integration of artificial intelligence (AI).
Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer opens Healthcare Hub to grow UK healthtech companies
Pfizer has opened a Healthcare Hub in London as the pharmaceutical giant looks to help growing British healthtech companies achieve scale with access to the likes of the NHS.
Top tips on companies finding success overseas
Led by a government drive, exporting has been steadily creeping up the news agenda and now sits at the top of “to do” lists of businesses of all sizes. The message is clear: to achieve fast and sustainable growth, firms need to enter new markets. But where to start
People-power plus technology: A new business opportunity in healthcare
By John Loder
John Loder, head of strategy at Nesta Health Lab, argues that advances in technology present huge opportunities to innovate in the healthcare space and bring about sizeable benefits – both commercially and socially.
New export country series: Getting over the economic uncertainty of Brazil
With the seventh largest economy in the world, Brazil is an exciting market for UK businesses – as Mauricio Munguia, head of Latin America desk at Santander UK, explains.
The SMEs working together to provide better care for the elderly and disabled
By Simon Brooke
The announcement on 24 November that the NHS will receive a £3.8bn, above-inflation, cash injection next year has once again stoked up a debate about how best to deliver healthcare to an ageing population with increasingly complex health requirements.
Healthcare to hiring: A small business that is expanding the role of technology
By Simon Brooke
As concerns continue about NHS funding, its leaders are constantly looking to see how they can utilise technology to provide better healthcare to our ageing population with its more complex health needs.
The UKs fastest growing private companies: Hot 100 2015 (89) Direct Medics
Since being established in 2000, Direct Medics has provided specialist healthcare recruitment services to healthcare providers across the UK and Ireland.