Striking a healthy balance

How can private healthcare businesses navigate economic turbulence? Sandy Boxall investigates

I just used my phone to order up a repeat prescription. It’s the sort of action that was unthinkable even a decade ago but is now so commonplace it barely merits mentioning.

Thanks to the relentless tide of digital advances, patients no longer have to rely on traditional routes to healthcare – thank goodness. Can you imagine what the pandemic would have been like without technology to underpin the vaccines?