DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “UK Healthcare Market Review: 33rd Edition” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The 33rd edition of the publisher’s UK Healthcare Market Review is vital reading for independent providers, commissioners, advisors and investors active in the UK’s independent healthcare and social care sectors.

Published in September 2021, and written during the summer, the Review reflects on how the pandemic has affected the independent healthcare and social care sectors during the past 18 months.

The report includes a new chapter on healthcare workforce and recruitment. This provides valuable insight into the key drivers of this market at a time when the sector is once again facing staffing challenges as the wider economy opens up.

The new edition also includes a revised and updated politics and regulation section. This outlines current Government policy and NHS England’s strategy of moving towards integrated care and offers opinion on the likely impact of the funding announcement made by the UK Government on 7 September.

What the Report Covers

• Healthcare expenditure trends
• Private acute healthcare
• Health cover
• Care homes for older people
• Adult specialist care
• Homecare and supported living
• Mental health hospitals
• Children’s residential care
• Foster care
• Special education
• Dentistry
• Primary care
• Occupational health
• Community health services
• Healthcare workforce
• Politics and regulation
• Private equity in healthcare

Who is the report for?

• C-suite professionals from right across the independent healthcare and social care environment
• CCG and local authority commissioners
• Directors of Adult Social Services
• Directors of Children’s Services
• NHS Foundation Trusts
• Independent hospitals/hospital groups
• Care home providers/care home provider groups
• Banks and other financial institutions
• Local and national government
• Healthcare and social care trade bodies
• Policy writers
• Think tanks

Key Topics Covered:

1. Sponsor’s Foreword

2. Healthcare Data Key Sources

3. International Healthcare Expenditure Trends

4. UK Healthcare Expenditure Trends

5. NHS Expenditure On Healthcare Services Provided By The Independent Sector

6. Sector Summaries

• Private Acute Healthcare
• Health Cover
• Care Homes for Older People
• Adult Specialist Care
• Homecare and Assisted Living
• Mental Health Hospitals
• Children’s Residential Care
• Foster Care
• Special Education
• Dentistry
• Primary Care
• Community Health Services
• Occupational Health
• Healthcare Workforce and Recruitment

7. Politics And Regulation

• Healthcare
• Social Care
• Quality and Assurance
• UK Central Government
• Regulators

8. Private Equity in Healthcare

• 2020 – How healthcare Private Equity navigated a turbulent year and delivered results
• HCPEA healthcare investment growing from North America to European geographies
• Profiles of healthcare-focused private equity firms
• Selected recent UK healthcare private equity deals
• BVCA supporting private equity firms in the UK
• The Publisher’s Care Monitor, England – Acute Healthcare provider quality tables, August 2021
• The Publisher’s Care Monitor, England – Social Care provider quality tables, July 2021
• Healthcare Markets international – Major international hospital groups, September 2021
• UK and international groups

9. Private Equity Intelligence

• Healthcare private equity portfolios, by fund, September 2021
• UK healthcare private equity portfolio companies, by hold period over 24 months, September 2021
• Major transactions in healthcare and social care, April 2014-September 2021

10. Register of Significant Events

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/not4oe

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LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has launched Vonage Video Express to make it easier and faster for developers to leverage the Vonage Video API for multiparty calls. Vonage Video Express truly democratizes video and makes every web developer a video developer. Instead of taking days, weeks, or even months to integrate video into an application, a developer is now able to integrate video within hours with just a few lines of code.

Multiparty video calls involve multiple participants sharing their audio and video streams while simultaneously subscribing to participants’ streams. Vonage Video Express provides support for simplified and optimised Video API usage, including automatic management of rooms, participants, layout, quality and experience.

Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, video meetings often connected a single person or team to another person or team. When virtually every business around the world shifted overnight to remote delivery of services and work from home models, the volume of employees signing in individually, with their unique network connections and devices, presented challenges in scalability and flexibility for existing customer applications leveraging video. With Video Express, Vonage is making it simpler for businesses who want to build best-in-class video experiences for multiple participants, but don’t have the skill level or resources required in-house to implement customisation or manage the quality without additional support and tools.

“The pandemic has ushered in a new era for video communications, with consumers, students, patients, and employees now appreciating the value of this medium,” said Courtney Munroe, Vice President, Worldwide Telecommunications at IDC. “As we shift into a post-pandemic reality, organisations will need to continue to reinvent themselves by enhancing their customer journeys with innovative digital features. Video communications is showing tremendous growth and expansion, with healthcare, education, events, and business services leading the way with complex multiparty video experiences.”

“In order to meet customer demand post-pandemic, businesses will need to reinvent how they connect with customers and employees through large-scale video experiences. The Vonage team has seen first-hand how developers face the same challenges over and over when trying to bring more people into the room without sacrificing quality, so we were inspired to do what we can to make multiparty video less complicated for customers using our Video API,” said Savinay Berry, EVP, Product and Engineering, Vonage. “Our goal is to democratize video. Every web developer should also be able to easily integrate video without knowing the configurations required for bit-rates, resolution, and bandwidth.”

Vonage Video Express—currently in beta—will help Vonage customers across all industries get to market quicker with slicker branded experiences, while controlling their video-related costs and without compromising on quality and scalability:

• Telehealth – Healthcare platforms are now offering their practitioners a variety of multiparty telehealth options, including expert consultations connecting patients, medical experts, and the patient’s family remotely to expedite decision making, and even group therapy sessions that remove technology barriers and create spaces for the open exchange of ideas.
• Education – In the online education space, multiparty video is being deployed to improve tasks from classrooms to school-to-home communications to remote exam administration and hiring of talent.
• Events and Entertainment – Companies innovating in the online events space have been one of the fastest growing sectors during COVID, building interactive stages and broadcasting to millions over video via social channels.

Learn more about how the Vonage Communications Platform enables businesses to create customer and employee connections that are more flexible, intelligent and personal – across industries and across the globe.

About Vonage

Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation. Vonage’s Communications Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems. Vonage’s fully programmable unified communications and contact center applications are built from the Vonage platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or anywhere, providing enormous flexibility and ensuring business continuity.

Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in New Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, Australia and Asia. To follow Vonage on Twitter, please visit www.twitter.com/vonage. To become a fan on Facebook, go to www.facebook.com/vonage. To subscribe on YouTube, visit www.youtube.com/vonage.

Contacts

Vonage Media Contact: Santina Stankevich, 201-407-8474, santina.stankevich@vonage.com

Vonage Investor Contact: Hunter Blankenbaker, 732.444.4926, hunter.blankenbaker@vonage.com

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The United Nations Member States will move toward nominating candidates for the post of the next World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General in one month. As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO executive election must become more transparent, equitable, merit-based and open to a wide pool of candidates from diverse backgrounds, according to AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally.

The current WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is in the running for the next five-year appointment, but who else is vying for the spot remains hidden from public view, just as much of the selection process has been for years. After the mid-September deadline, the WHO Executive Board will consider all candidates submitted by the Member States and come up with a short list of five names by January 2022. Eventually the Board will whittle down the list to three candidates, before the final decision is voted on by the Member States at the 75th World Health Assembly in May 2022.

“With Dr. Tedros’ manifest failure in handling the pandemic, the question is who will replace him? That search must be transparent. We cannot let a decision of this magnitude be made in the dark or be subjected to political maneuvering behind closed doors,” said AHF President Michael Weinstein. “The overriding concern of the Member States and the Executive Board should be to cast the net as wide as possible and seek out leaders from different backgrounds who have the resolve and skills to steer the WHO through this difficult time and restore its reputation as a leading scientific and technical health agency. Public hearings with candidates might be one way to bring more openness to the elections – as constituents of the Member States we have the right to know the process is being carried out fairly and in the interest of global public health.”

In June, AHF published a statement outlining six reasons why Dr. Tedros should not be re-appointed for a second term as Director-General of the WHO. Among the chief concerns about Dr. Tedros’ performance during the pandemic are questions about delays on the part of the WHO in declaring COVID-19 a public health emergency, followed by another delay in declaring it a pandemic, a lack of transparency around the origins of COVID-19, and a general slowness in mounting a robust, clearly articulated response to the pandemic. With the upcoming election of a new Director-General, Member States have an opportunity to address the leadership gap at the WHO by making the search transparent and open to diverse candidates.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 1.5 million clients in 45 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare and Instagram: @aidshealthcare

Contacts

Ged Kenslea, Senior Director, Communications, AHF

+1.323.308.1833 work +1.323.791.5526 mobile

gedk@aidshealth.org

Denys Nazarov, Director of Global Policy &

Communications, AHF

+1 323.308.1829

denys.nazarov@ahf.org