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MBAs and executive training courses – are they worth the time and money?

You can’t become an expert in healthcare services overnight - but there are courses, MBAs or much shorter executive training courses - which say they can help to transform you or your staff into the next generation of healthcare managers, leaders and entrepreneurs. But can they really do this - and are they good value for money? Where should you send yourself, or your staff, to fill any gaps in knowledge that might be putting the brakes on a career? And does it matter if the management course isn’t focussed on healthcare at all?
December 14, 2016

Hemsö buys nursing homes in Germany

Swedish property company Hemsö has acquired four nursing homes in Germany for €40m. A week later, it divested a portfolio of 35 properties in Sweden. CEO Nils Styf shares his views on both countries.
December 14, 2016

Interview: Nick Hernandez, CEO of US healthcare consultancy ABISA

Boutique US advisory firm ABISA says it is working with Swiss clients for a healthcare deal in Eastern Europe. The expansion is likely to focus on medical tourism, telehealth and oncology - ABISA’s three main areas of expertise. We talk to founder Nick Hernandez.
December 14, 2016

The future of healthcare in Nigeria: PPPs and the NHIS?

Healthcare investors generally take a fancy to Nigeria. Africa’s most populous country has a growing middle class and will one day finally put some distance between itself and South Africa as its largest economy. The petrodollars already flow freely into healthcare. But no one has bothered to keep them in the country: not the existing […]
December 13, 2016

IFC and EBRD backs diversifying Georgian pharmacy

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a division of the World Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), are loaning Aversi-Pharma, one of the country’s largest pharmacy chains, money to build two new health centres.
December 12, 2016

Narayana to invest in Nairobi hospital, as Medanta denies speculation

The Indian hospital group Narayana Health, is investing in a new 130-bed hospital in Nairobi to open within 24-28 months, backed by investors the IFC and the Abraaj Group. Medanta Africare, a joint venture between local investors and the Indian RJ Group, was also reported to be building a 200-bed facility in Kenya’s capital. But this is false we heard from the CEO Anil Maini - although it has signed up with a local hospital to offer cardiac surgery and cath procedures.
December 12, 2016

The challenges of encouraging informed choice in social care

The ratings website for adult social care, TrustedCare, which also publishes a directory of all care providers in the UK, and a help and advice section for consumers, has now been up and running for four years. So why has it received just 524 of its own reviews?
December 12, 2016
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