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Report: Private Healthcare in Mexico – Hotting Up

Mexico boasts a large, innovative and vibrant private healthcare sector, which sits alongside a developing, but somewhat chaotic public sector. We look at the major players in the private sector, as well as at new innovators seeking to cut the cost of treatment to reach the masses.
November 5, 2015

Report: Reforming healthcare – trends and trajectories

European countries are undergoing rapid and substantial demographic and technological changes. Yet, healthcare systems are still mainly state-funded and acute-focused, as they have been for the past 70 years. This is starting to change.
November 4, 2015

France dents Capio organic growth

Pan-European hospital group Capio reckons that productivity gains from shorter hospital stays should enable it to achieve 4% organic sales growth across its operations in Sweden, Norway, Germany and France. But tariff cuts in France and a nasty bout of flu in Germany meant it only hit 2.3% for the third quarter and 2.9% for the first nine months. Capio IPOed in June 2015. Its shares fell SEK1.25 to 53SEK on the news but still trade above the SEK48.5 IPO price.
November 4, 2015

Lux Med targets tier two cities

Bupa-owned Polish provider Lux Med has bought Euro-Clinic, expanding its imaging diagnostic services to Cracow with its 23rd acquisition in eight years. However, the group has its eyes set on acute. It is currently building the largest private hospital in Poland. We talk to Anna Rulkiewicz, Lux Med's president.
November 4, 2015

FREE BLOG Measuring quality

Measuring and delivering quality is going to be massively important for all private sector operators over the next five years - whether in acute care or elderly care. And initiatives are emerging which really should give transparency. Take the Private Healthcare Information Network in the UK.
November 4, 2015

MedicallHome expands to Philippines

Medicall Home targets the Mexican lower-middle class with a cheap, $5 monthly fee per family. Subscribers get access to 24/7 telephonic assistance and up to 70% discounts in the company's network of affiliates. We talk to Jorge Woolf, CEO of the Salud Interactiva group, about the business model, the Mexican market and expansion across Latin America, the Philippines and the US.
November 4, 2015

Alzira: Chronicle of a death foretold

The Valencian government has finally made the official announcement that the Hospital de la Ribera concession in Alzira will not be renewed for Ribera Salud in 2018. The government is also exploring legal pathways to nullify the other four Alzira model concessions in Manises, Torrevieja, Dénia and Elx. All apart from Torrevieja look like easy targets.
November 3, 2015

Reactions to the new Polish government and the sad tale of a healthcare reform that backfired

Private operators are throwing weary sighs at the prospect of a majority PIS government in Poland. The new statist, right-wing government has yet to announce the new Minister of Health but the PIS manifesto includes a pledge to regionalise healthcare expenditure, closing the National Health Insurance Fund. Meanwhile, operators are hoping that the new government will deal with a disastrous attempt to get more cancer tests faster.
November 2, 2015
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