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Emirates Hospital buys 60% of Slovakian rehab specialist Adeli

Dubai-based Emirates hospital is to buy 60% of children neuro-rehabilitation Slovakian specialist Adeli. Pramod Balakrishnan, CEO of Emirates Hospital, says the group plans to open five centres in the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar to provide follow-up care to patients returning from Slovakia.
April 12, 2016

Mediheal expands to Ethiopia

Kenya-based hospital operator Mediheal, which runs one hospital and five diagnostic centres (total figures) in Eldoret, Nakuru, Nairobi and Kigali is entering a Ksh100m ($1m) expansion phase in Kenya and Ethiopia. We speak to CEO Devaki Nandan Bansal.
April 12, 2016

Medicover in bold Indian IVF move

The pan-European operator, Medicover, which has lines in occupational healthcare, labs, ambulances, fertility and more, is to open 50 IVF clinics in India within five years at a cost of US$100m. In just four months, it’s planning four clinics in the National Capital Region (NCR) and from there it will expand across the north, building ten outlets within 18 months. Fredrik Ragmark, CEO of Medicover, explained this out of character move to us.
April 12, 2016

PiS lays out plans for Polish healthcare

The newly minted Law & Justice (PiS) administration is wasting no time stripping markets out of Polish healthcare. A bill that would limit the private ownership of public hospitals and ban dividends alongside proposals for free primary care are well on their way. Replacing the national insurer (NFZ) with a Beveridge system and a network of preferred service providers should follow. The era of commercialising state hospitals is over. Private operators will struggle to access public funds, but there is no resolve for the underfunded public system, suggesting more and more Poles will go private.
April 12, 2016

PPPs back down in Spain, private sector grows

Anti-PPP regional governments in Spain are pushing hospital groups to the purely private higher-end sector. After Ribera Salud in Valencia and Quirón in Catalonia, the latest to lose a big contract is Clínica Universidad de Navarra (CUN). Groups like HM Hospitales have become highly acquisitive, whilst CUN itself will open a new hospital in Madrid's business district in 2017.
April 12, 2016

The European Investment Bank considers €55m investment in Vienna hospital

The European Investment Bank is looking to invest €55m towards a hospital Public-Private Partnership (PPP). The investment would go towards the construction and refurbishment of the Wilhelmine Hospital, which is part of the wider 2030 Vienna Hospitals Concept scheme run by the Vienna Hospital Association (KAV).
April 11, 2016

Aino Health enters roll-out phase in Europe and the Gulf states

Finnish preventive care group Aino Health Management Oy is entering an aggressive roll-out phase by expanding in Europe and the Middle East. Already in Finland, Sweden, Germany and the UAE, it is in talks to enter Saudi Arabia as part of a $54m deal –and potentially the UK in 2017.
April 11, 2016

Valencian government could buy out DKV

The Valencian government might buy German insurer DKV's majority stake in the Alzira-style hospital concession in Dénia, Spain. The announcement improves DKV's prospects of exiting. Denia minority shareholder Ribera Salud, which controls three of the other four concessions in Valencia, holds the right to counterbid, but it had planned to buy DKV's stake for a token price.
April 7, 2016

Healthcare Europa March 2016

Our post-MIPIM healthcare property review, the inside story on Stuart Fletcher’s defenestration from Bupa and what happens when you can get computers to read medical records?
April 6, 2016
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