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Report: South Africa: Trouble in the Rainbow Nation?

South Africa is embarking on an ambitious process of reform to redress its historic imbalance in healthcare delivery. The National Health Insurance policy envisions far-reaching change in both the payment and provision of healthcare. The enormously successful private sector, however, has been left in the dark over its future role. What does the future hold for this $30 billion private healthcare market?
April 1, 2015

IFC invests $4.5m in East African pharmacy chain

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank, has agreed to loan $4.5 million to Kenyan pharmaceutical retail chain Goodlife to help it become a leading brand in East Africa.
March 31, 2015

RSBY to move into outpatient services

India’s national health insurance scheme for the poor, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), is successfully piloting a shift into outpatient services according to Dr Nata Menabde, the World Health Organisation representative to India. Pilots in Gujarat, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab show “that it is indeed possible to use the RSBY machinery to finance outpatient services”.
March 31, 2015

FREE BLOG Numbers show potential

You know that slide on the growth of the elderly and the rise of non-communicable diseases that everyone includes in their presentations just before the audience falls asleep? The really interesting numbers are elsewhere.
March 31, 2015

Qatar gives greenlight to two new private hospitals

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Delhi-based Medanta Medicity and Qatari company Humanis Group to open a 500-bed multispecialty hospital, at an estimated $250m. Dr. Naresh Trehan, managing director of Medanta Medicity, says India has a lot to offer the Gulf state.
March 31, 2015

Report: The investor landscape in the Emerging Markets

Here we name and categorise the major investors in private healthcare services in the Developing World and get their view on the opportunities and problems they face. Developing World healthcare services have suddenly become wildly popular. New listed investment vehicles, such as GCC-based Amanat and Asian Healthcare Group in Malaysia have raised hundreds of millions of dollars with the promise of investing in healthcare services. Meanwhile, established private equity houses are launching funds worth up to $1bn and large healthcare services operators from Indonesia to Egypt are carrying out heavily oversubscribed IPOs on very high multiples.
March 31, 2015

Carlyle seeks $694m stake in Brazil’s Rede D’Or

Private equity house Carlyle is reportedly looking to pay as much as R$2bn ($694 million) for a stake in Rede D’Or, Brazil’s biggest private hospital group with forecast 2014 sales of R$5.5bn ($1.7bn), after the government opened up private healthcare to foreign investors in January 2015.
March 31, 2015

Miliband lobs 5% profit cap bombshell at private sector

Labour leader, Ed Miliband, the man most likely to be the next UK prime minister, has said that clinical service providers would face a 5% cap on profits on deals with the NHS. There is now a very strong probability that the UK, like Sweden, may end up with a leftist coalition, as the right fragments. We look at the implications.
March 30, 2015
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