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The Star
04-07-2025
- Business
- The Star
Remedi, CGC Digital and Seedflex partner to enable on-platform financing for clinics
From left) MIDA executive director (investment promotion) Faizal Jalaludin, Khairul Faizi, Yushida, Ritwik and Cyberview technology hub development division head Shafinaz Salim at the signing ceremony between Remedi, CGC Digital and Seedflex to enable on-platform financing for clinics. KUALA LUMPUR: Remedi, CGC Digital and Seedflex announced a strategic collaboration to expand access to business financing for private clinics through embedded financing within the Remedi clinic management platform. The initiative supports SME digitalisation by integrating financial services directly into the Remedi Clinic Management Platform, already used by over 500 clinics in Malaysia. This innovative collaboration is aimed at improving financing access for private clinics — many of which operate as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — by embedding loan and financing options within their existing digital workflows. It forms part of a broader effort to strengthen financial resilience among healthcare SMEs through alternative data and platform-based delivery. Remedi provides an integrated solution for managing the full range of clinic operations. This includes appointment scheduling, billing, medical records, inventory control and patient engagement, all in a seamless digital environment. The platform also captures valuable business insights that support predictive features, such as forecasting inventory needs. 'We are committed to helping clinics digitalise not only their operations, but also their access to financial and procurement services. 'Embedded financing is an innovative approach and a natural step in building a full-service ecosystem for clinics and ensuring their operational sustainability as well,' said Remedi managing director Khairul Faizi Khalid. Additionally, the platform has launched a built-in procurement marketplace that allows clinics to order medical supplies and consumables directly, streamlining inventory management and making operations more efficient. By embedding financing into this ecosystem, clinics will be able to access working capital and business loans directly through the platform, reducing administrative burden and improving access to tailored funding. 'This initiative allows us to bring the alternative financing ecosystem closer to the point of need — supporting SMEs with both access and affordability,' said CGC Digital chief executive officer Yushida Husin. This collaboration brings together critical components of the healthcare and lending ecosystems to address long-standing challenges in accessing financing: > Remedi acts as the central hub, embedding financing tools within its operational interface and generating data to support credit evaluation; > CGC Digital plays a facilitative role by enabling risk-sharing arrangements and connecting a broader network of financing partners to the platform leveraging CGC Digital's financing marketplace, imSME; > Seedflex provides flexible, performance-based financing tailored to clinics' actual business activity, making capital more accessible and aligned with day-to-day operational realities. By integrating financing into a platform already central to clinic operations, the partnership lowers barriers to funding, streamlines the application process, and enables more responsive and appropriate financing solutions — ultimately bridging the financing gap for a critical segment of healthcare SMEs. 'We're excited to collaborate with Remedi and CGC Digital to provide flexible financing to address the real-life credit needs of healthcare clinics. 'This partnership allows us to continue pursuing our vision to bridge the credit gap for SMEs and give business owners of any size the same fair access to capital regardless of their background,' added Seedflex co-founder and chief executive officer Ritwik Ghosh.
ITV News
30-06-2025
- ITV News
'People don't want to leave their house': New crackdown on summertime anti-social behaviour
A charity says some people are too scared to step outside because of fears over anti-social behaviour. Cumbria Police are partnering with community groups to launch a Safe Streets Summer project, which hopes to combat the issue by keeping young people engaged with activities throughout the summer holidays and by ramping up enforcement. Harley Day, a Remedi Community Engagement Officer, said: "Some people don't even want to leave their house. It can be very scary, especially when they live on their own and they're older; it has a massive effect. "It could just be that youths are just knocking on their door, but we don't know what they've been through in the past. You know, people have quite traumatic stress." Police say there's been a decline in the number of anti-social behaviour incidents in Cumbria, with 985 fewer reports in the year leading up to March. David Allen, Cumbria's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, said: "For me, coming back into Cumbria and the policing sphere, it broke my heart to see that we withdrew from the public that we serve. "We're now turning that dial back, providing visible policing and neighbourhood police officers who know the patch." Cumbria Youth Alliance says there is a lack of facilities for young people across the county - but it's not the whole picture. Chief Operating Officer Sophie Birkett, from Cumbria Youth Alliance, said: "There were around 586 different youth services around Cumberland, not all youth groups, but something offering something for young people, for them to do. So I don't think it's a lack of provision. I think it's a lack of awareness." This summer initiative follows the launch of Operation Enhance in July 2024, in which the force pledged to carry out extra patrols in 18 hotspot areas, including Carlisle, Workington, Maryport, Cleator Moor, Whitehaven, Penrith and Kendal. Lauren Woodward, from Cumbria's Fire and Rescue team, said: "It's quite rare in Cumbria, but one is too many, so we just ask people to be mindful and share messages with their children about the impact it can have on us if you hurt one of our firefighters, they're not able to do their job."
Telegraph
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Punch: another state-of-the-nation masterpiece from James Graham
is the most celebrated British playwright of the past decade. Crucial to his success is an exploration of Britishness which manages to combine the personal and the political, often using big institutions to explore our obsessions and peculiarities. In Dear England (2023) we had the England football team representing our anxieties as a society; in Ink (2017), Murdoch's tabloid endeavours became a magnet for our own tawdry desires. Punch, a richly deserved transfer from Nottingham Playhouse, is resolutely personal and political, too: a state-of-the-nation play which never hectors its audience. The result is a compelling examination of the human cost and consequences of violence. It is based on the memoir of Jacob Dunne, Right From Wrong, and takes us back to a fateful summer night in 2011 when Dunne, then a feckless 19-year-old from Nottingham (and the product of a tough council estate upbringing) killed James Hodgkinson, with a single, impulsive punch. After serving 14 months in prison for manslaughter, Jacob finds himself homeless and lacking purpose. Through a mediator from Remedi, a charity for restorative justice, he meets James's parents who are themselves searching for answers, which duly effects a profound transformation. We witness the events which lead up to the catastrophic blow, as well as his subsequent incarceration and rehabilitation. Flashbacks to Jacob's childhood and schooling suggest that the chance of him leading a good life were slim from the start. Indeed, this is a play which has much to say about the lack of opportunity (and the increasing demonisation) of the white working-class male. Graham is not exonerating Dunn, though, and part of his skill as a playwright comes from the way in which he stresses the importance of personal responsibility. Dunn is certainly humanised, but it is never at the expense of his victim. There is also a vein of humour which is disconcerting, but brings an added depth to the overall structure of the play. The strength of Graham's writing is complemented by Adam Penford's direction which is always sensitive, and is marked by an almost balletic grace. Anna Fleischle's set design, a two-tier concrete underpass, suggests a nihilism that's reminiscent of the 2009 film Harry Brown, starring Michael Caine as a vigilante pensioner. As for the cast, David Shields is exceptional as Jacob, moving seamlessly from Fred Perry-shirted braggadocio to timorous vulnerability and, ultimately, contrition when he comes face to face with Joan and David Hodgkinson. Julie Hesmondhalgh and Tony Hirst as James' parents could simply just provide a masterclass in fortitude and stoicism – which they do, up to a point, but it's the flashes of anger, of anguish and frustration, which make their performances so special. Ultimately this is a powerful meditation on morality, fuelled by the assertion that people can – and do – change.
