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Denmark: becoming more pro-private

Denmark has the reputation for being hostile to private health providers. With healthcare a top priority for the 2015 elections on 18 June, Jens Jacobsen, vice-president of the Association of Private Hospitals and Clinics and director of the Valdemar hospital, explains private operators are not worried.
June 4, 2015

China seeks German IVF expertise

Since the relaxation of China’s one child policy in November 2013, IVF demand has shot up. German IVF chain, VivaNeo has entered the market. We talk to Christian Mayer, general manager at VivaNeo, about the deal and the Chinese market. We are publishing a detailed survey of the IVF sector in Healthcare Europa this month.
June 4, 2015

Budget issues hit private operators

Despite being rescued by a deal with the central government, the heavily indebted Italian region of Lazio continues to pursue cuts to public services. This means tough times for private healthcare operators, such as for-profit Gruppo Garofalo and not-for-profit player IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana.
June 4, 2015

GIC buys stake in Rede D’Or

The Brazilian healthcare market continues to open up with the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, GIC, buying a stake in the hospital group, Rede D’Or. Valor Economico, a local newspaper, says it has taken a 15.3% stake, with the bank BTG and the founding Moll family selling equal parts. A price of $1.01bn (3.2bn reals) values the company at $6.6bn.
June 2, 2015

Interview: Javier Okhuysen, Co-CEO and founder salaUno, Mexico

SalaUno is looking to revolutionise ophthalmology provision in Mexico City with some lessons from India. Okhuysen claims that cataract surgery costs just $390, around a fifth of the cost in the UK. The sector attracts little government support, forcing consumers to turn to traditional high cost providers. We talk to Okhuysen about the new business model. Ophthalmology provision in Mexico falls victim to an on-going systemic problem, with options limited to high cost, low volume private providers. As is the case across the world when it comes government focus, ophthalmology is the ugly cousin of rising lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes and cancer.
June 2, 2015

Mixed feelings over Saudi’s new health minister

In late April 2015, Saudi Arabia appointed its sixth acting health minister in the last three years. Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih’s appointment has raised the hopes of the private sector, as the minister was formally the chairman of Saudi Aramco, the private oil giant. Shares in healthcare groups recently rose after the new minister said that the pilot for statutory healthcare insurance has been completed.
June 2, 2015

Report: Elderly care in emerging markets

Across the world, people are living longer. But many emerging economies face a horrible question that is not posed in Europe: will too large a section of the population be old before the country is rich enough to provide for them? Here we look at the very different ways that elderly care is developing in China, India, the UAE and Brazil.
May 29, 2015
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