By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder June 2026 James Murray, Labour Member of Parliament for Ealing North, was appointed to the role of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in May 2026. This followed a limited Cabinet reshuffle triggered by the resignation of Wes Streeting, who previously occupied the health brief. Murray became...

Greybeard experts express their views on the issues currently facing the healthcare c-suite. By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder. June 2026. Greybeard Healthcare has assembled a network of highly experienced healthcare experts across a vast range of disciplines. Around half the network are clinically qualified (physicians, oncologists, pharmacists, emergency medicine specialists, primary care medics); the...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder May 2026 The seventy-ninth World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva from 18 to 23 May 2026. The purpose of the annual assembly is for delegates from 194 member states to “make decisions on health goals and strategies that will guide their own public health work and the...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder May 2026 Greybeard Healthcare is grateful to Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare for inviting us to prepare and design the ‘Clinical Services Plan Year In Review’, providing an overview of all the transformation activities delivered during the course of 2025, while we were supporting the Program Management Office (PMO). This...

By Maha Makled, Greybeard Healthcare marketing expert May 2026 How many interactions does it take for a patient to choose a healthcare provider? It has not been a single interaction for some time. Patients evaluate providers through multiple touchpoints, from online search and reviews to referrals and social content. In fact, 77% of patients use...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder May 2026 The US Air Corps is widely cited as the first organization to establish a specific unit with the name and function of a ‘project management office’ [1]. In 1939, responding to rising global tensions, Congress had authorized President Roosevelt’s administration to invest $300 million in the threefold...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder April 2026 Regular readers will recall the article ‘Clinical services transformation at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare – supporting the evolution of clinical care’, published in March 2026. JHAH was kind enough to approve this article, which explained how Greybeard Healthcare was invited to establish and run a Program Management...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder April 2026 On 10 April 2026, the Artemis II spacecraft and its remarkable four crew members completed its nine-day lunar flyby mission, returning to Earth after viewing the far side of the moon and traveling further from the Earth than any previous astronauts. Reflecting on the success of the...

By Mark Adams, Greybeard Healthcare Expert April 2026 Fifteen years ago, a GCC resident needing a complex cardiac procedure, spinal surgery, or a difficult cancer operation would, almost as a matter of reflex, book a flight to London, Houston or Bangkok. The assumption was that for any serious condition, you went abroad. The Gulf was...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder April 2026 It is nearly three years since the ground breaking World Health Assembly resolution (WHA76.6) on strengthening rehabilitation in health systems globally. Welcoming the resolution, the World Health Organisation described it as a “historic milestone” which marked “the first time in 75 years that rehabilitation has been recognized...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder Simon Giffin, Greybeard Healthcare Chief Executive Officer April 2026 In this piece, the authors share reflections on the latest megatrends they are seeing within the healthcare sector. Megatrend #1 PERSONALIZED MEDICINE The global personalized medicine market is growing four to five times faster than the GDP of most developed...

By Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder Joe Connor, Greybeard Healthcare Expert (AI investment, Capacity Building and Management) March, 2026 In a recent article, Greybeard Healthcare explored the role of healthcare providers amid escalating international tensions and examined lessons from previous crises. In the article, we touched on the importance of the supply chain in ensuring...

by Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder March 2026 Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH) is a leading provider of integrated healthcare services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2022, the organization launched a comprehensive Clinical Transformation Plan designed to modernize key aspects of clinical services delivery and further enhance the quality, access, and sustainability of...

by Laurence Smith, Greybeard Healthcare Co-Founder February 2026 In the days since the United States began striking targets in Iran, with the goal of “dismantling the Iranian regime’s security apparatus”, there have been repercussions across the Gulf region.  At the time of writing, missiles and drones have been launched at targets in as many as...