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Auction not dead at American Heart of Poland

Sources are denying that the auction for American Heart of Poland, the Polish heart hospital chain, owned by Advent International, has failed. But the process is taking a very long time. We name the industrial bidders and look at what might be behind the delay.
September 10, 2015

Report: Top private Chinese hospital groups revealed

It is never easy making sense out of the private healthcare sector in China! So here is our list of the top six private hospital groups in China together with a further list of the 24 largest private hospital groups and their owners.
September 3, 2015

Unilabs achieves 7% organic growth

Unilabs CEO and company doctor Jos Lamers is cock-a-hoop over second quarter sales growth of 7.1% at constant exchange rates and sees a trend towards the public sector outsourcing. Unilabs, the Pan-West European lab and imaging group, was a late entry in to the race to buy Pan-Euro lab group synlab this summer and Lamers is keen to make more acquistions. We talk to him about the results and how he sees the lab sector.
September 3, 2015

IHH becomes a major player in India

The largest Asian hospital chain, IHH Healthcare Berhad, has acquired Global Hospitals, India’s fourth largest group, in a deal which takes IHH’s Indian revenues to a run rate of around INR 12bn ($181m) in calendar 2015 with over 1,800 beds. The deal saw IHH pay INR 10.2bn for a 73.4% stake and inject a further […]
September 2, 2015

FREE BLOG Private healthcare mirrors education

Education and healthcare are the two services most necessary for human development. It has traditionally followed, moreover, that they are best provided by the state. In the developed world we now take state provided healthcare and education for granted, regardless of our opinion on their quality, and private provision is the exception, not the rule. Yet across Africa, South Asia and some parts of the Middle East this is far from the case.
August 21, 2015

Report: Reforming China’s hospital sector

Between 2009 and 2014, the Chinese government spent over $370bn on healthcare, three times the $124bn initially planned. It is now drafting a new set of reforms in its new five-year road map to 2020, by which time total healthcare spending is expected to reach $1 trillion according to McKinsey.
August 21, 2015

FREE BLOG Luddism, outcome measures and healthcare

Luddism comes in many forms. Even a well versed and articulate argument put forward by medical professionals to stop people filling in a survey. You might say an analogy between modern-day brain surgeons and Victorian textile workers, is pushing it, but the results are the same. Social and economic progress is stymied by a narrow interest group resisting technological or procedural change, and that is precisely what the resistance to tranparency and performance measurement in healthcare represents.
August 21, 2015

Report: Can assisted living work in Europe?

Everyone is familiar with the idea of a retirement village, but they are relative newcomers in any form to Europe and the common perception first popularised in 1950s America is out-dated. Then retirement meant receiving the proverbial gold watch at 65 and moving somewhere cheaper, joining a like-minded community with a golf course, often somewhere with better weather. Some developments became towns in their own right. Arizona’s Sun City has 62,000 residents. Today over 5% of those 65+ live in dedicated retirement communities.
August 21, 2015

Swedish nursing home 26% more cost efficient than its public counterpart, says four-year study

Ostersund, a Swedish municipality, commissioned a study assessing two identical care homes, one run by the public sector, the other by a private provider. Results might make the Swedish left-wing coalition rethink their policies aiming to curb private sector profits. Despite both homes receiving the same quality appraisal, the private one is more cost effective.
August 21, 2015
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