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Curagita finally gets a hospital

In the arcane world of German healthcare services, buying a tiny 11 bed hospital can be the source of great joy. With a hospital you can expand freely in the German outpatient sector. Without one you are cribbed and confined. No wonder Deutschen Radiologienetz (DR), an ambitious imaging company that wants to build a national network, is celebrating.

Value-based reimbursement to hit Sweden

Value-based reimbursement (VBRs), a bundled payment system which replaces DRG, is set to be rolled out to breast cancer, diabetes, obstetrics, bariatric surgery, osteoporosis, hip and knee, spinal surgery and stroke patients in seven Swedish counties.

Interview: Franceso Longo, director, CERGAS

Professor Longo is a long-term analyst of the Italian NHS and the private sector. Here he predicts a boom for the private sector in all forms of post-acute care, explains why he expects private medical insurance to grow steeply and looks at how the private sector is acquiring not-for-profit operators.

Interview: Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle

How is Apollo expanding its outpatient presence and building businesses in diabetes, maternity and diagnostics? We talk to Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL) about his chain of 90 clinics and about AHLL’s acquisition of Nova Speciality Hospitals, a chain of ten ambulatory surgery clinics. How will AHLL expand in India, the Middle East and Africa?

Circle pulls out of Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital ahead of CQC report

Listed UK company Circle Holdings have handed back responsibility for Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust to the UK taxpayer, saying government spending cuts and a rise in accident and emergency patients made the hospital an “unsustainable” franchise.

Abraaj to raise $1bn for innovative Global Health Fund

Private equity house Abraaj is raising at least $1bn for an innovative new fund to build new healthcare services, sometimes from scratch, in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent, reliable sources told Healthcare Nova.

Private clinics end strike in France

The Fédération de l’Hôspitalisation Privée (FHP) has ended its strike after the French government backed down from some controversial aspects of an upcoming healthcare reform bill.

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