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Concerns over lack of transparency in German care homes

How do you assess the quality of a German care home? With great difficulty says Daniel Drepper, a German investigative journalist at Correctiv!, who alleges there isn't enough information to assess the quality of care home services, and local authorities are turning a blind eye to it.
August 18, 2016

Interview: Fernando Echevarne Santamaria, managing director, Echevarne laboratories

Faced with falling prices and limited expansion opportunities, Spain’s largest independent lab group Echevarne laboratories is trying to find new ways to grow. We speak to Fernando Echevarne Santamaria, managing director of Echevarne Laboratories, on whether the group's strategy to vertically integrate is paying off.
August 18, 2016

Overall revenues up at Bupa – but Bupa Global’s profits decline

Overall revenues at Bupa are up according to its half year results – with only Bupa Global notably blotting the copybook with a decline in profits. Here is what Bupa had to say to Healthcare Europa and Nova about those Bupa Global figures - and their views on the thinking behind the recent sale of Bupa Home Healthcare to Celesio in the UK - together with a summary of the half-year report.
August 17, 2016

Indian renal care provider NephroPlus wins state PPP contract

Indian low-cost dialysis network Nephroplus is to provide dialysis sessions in 13 new centres attached to district hospitals in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh under a PPP contract. The group is now planning to raise $15m (100 crore) to fund new expansion plans that would double its network.
August 16, 2016

Hair clinic chain with roots in India looking to private equity for growth

A chain of hair and scalp clinics in India is reported to be in early talks with private equity funds to raise Rs.100 crore (USD$15m). Richfeel Health and Beauty Pvt.Ltd, which promotes itself as providing “India’s most advanced hair and scalp treatment”, is understood to be looking to fund expansion plans both at home, and abroad, and West Asia is reported to be a target.
August 15, 2016

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August 15, 2016

CEO to leave low margin Norlandia

The CEO of Norwegian care group Norlandia is to stand down in September, with her deputy taking her place. Speaking to Healthcare Nova, Hilde-Britt Mellbye confirmed her replacement will be Yngvar Tov Herbjørnssønn, who is the group’s current organisational director and the deputy CEO. Mellbye will however be staying on until January 1, 2017, as an advisor to her replacement.
August 12, 2016
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