Capital Investment

There is concern across the European Union that health does not figure prominently enough in the economic development plans of Member States at both national and regional levels. Starting in 2005 as an Interreg IIIC network operation, HCN is an initiative that spun-off into a non-profit company that still seeks to help address this challenge. […]

17 July 2017

It is shared and common prejudice that the costs for health care are rocketing and approaching the limits of affordability. This is not supported by evidence on expenditure over a 10 year period of economic change, intense health sector reform or consumer preferences and demand. A challenge shared by all European regional health systems in […]

15 July 2017

Activity in this area begins with a basic question: Given multi-million Euro investments in new hospitals and health facilities, why has so little been done to recognise the economic value and impact of (health) capital assets in regional and local economies? 

14 July 2017