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Interview: Bart Diels, Managing Partner, Head of Health & Care, Gimv

Listed investment company Gimv (Euronext: GIMB) is unusual in that it covers every aspect of health – biopharma, medtech and healthcare services – with a focus on mid-caps and a Pan-European approach. It is willing to invest as little as a few million euros up to € 50m and can hold a stake for up to 10-12 years. Active in biopharma since the early eighties, it has also made several investments in healthcare services and medical technologies. So how does Mr. Diels who has worked in VC and private equity for 20 years, view healthcare services as an investment perspective?

Consulting set to grow

How much money does healthcare services, as a sector, spend on management consultancy, and where? No surprise, perhaps, to learn that around 70% is spent in the USA, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. A new report from Source claims to have all the answers. We investigate.

Agel minority sells

Minority shareholder to sell stake in Agel, the largest Czech private hospital group.

Future looks bright for Indian healthcare

India is one of the fastest growing emerging markets and investors are moving into the country’s healthcare sector. Healthcare Nova journalist Rhiannon Williams spoke to two Indian investment bankers about the country’s private healthcare market.

FREE BLOG The Top 100 then and now

It is interesting to compare our European Top 100 private operators for 2014, which we published a few weeks ago, with the Top 100 Hospital groups we compiled back in 2009. How much has their culmalitive sales risen by in five years, do you think?

Private healthcare in Dubai can learn from education sector: Colliers

Private healthcare could learn some lessons from private education when investing in Dubai as most groups fail to do their homework before moving into the Gulf, Mansoor Ahmed, Director of Healthcare, Education and PPP at Colliers International told Healthcare Nova journalist Rhiannon Williams.

Interview: Ameera Shah, Owner & Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare

Interview: Ameera Shah, Owner & Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare. Ameera set up Metropolis when she was just 20. Fourteen years on, the business is one of the big three labs in India. It is the only one of the big three to expand abroad with lab operations in seven countries across Africa, the Middle East and Sri Lanka. It carries out 15 million tests a year through 125 labs and 800 phlebotomy centres. Ameera is also speaking at our annual conference in London on April 28, 2015.

FREE BLOG What we are doing, where we are going

People said I was mad when I set up Healthcare Europa in that inauspicious year, 2008. "Healthcare services are national industries. No one wants to know what is happening in other countries because it isn't relevant. " Six years on, and our European business is thriving. So much so, that we have now launched a new title, Healthcare Nova, to cover the Developing World.

Technology pushes forward homecare in Spain

Spain’s homecare market is trying to improve service delivery through the integration of technology. We spoke to Pilar Alfonso, healthcare projects director at Ribera Salud, the hospital operator that pioneered the Alzira model in Spain, about the future of homecare.

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