Eight years after the Georgian government embarked on the wholesale privatisation of its healthcare sector, the dust is only now beginning to settle. Has it been a success? We investigate.
We spoke to Thord Eriksson, author of 'People Die Here', about Sweden’s elderly care system and whether anything has changed since the Carema care scandal of 2011.
Entrepreneur Nicolai Kobliakov is looking to raise €50m of private equity to build a Pan-East European chain of nursing homes. We look at his plan and at the market. Is there really enough demand for private beds in a poor region?
Will the UK’s second largest private hospital group get the IPO away at a good price? We look at Spire strategy and talk to CEO Rob Rogers about the UK market.
A majority stake in GHD Gesundheit, Germany’s largest player in home care with sales of €485m in 2013, is to be purchased by Nordic Capital from IK investment Partners. Andreas Rudolph, the Gesundheit founder, will remain as CEO.
In the developed world in private healthcare every country is different. Oddly enough, that may be less so in the developing world - just look at laboratories.
Spire, the UK’s second largest hospital chain, is set to IPO on the London Stock Exchange next week in a flotation which will value it at around £1.5bn. But what do its just-published 2013 results tell us about its prospecta?
Despite big share price falls in 2013, Russian hospital group MD Medical continues to expand its obs and gynae chain, which serves the wealthiest 20% of the population across the country.
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, owner of IDC Salud, will buy a 61% stake of Spanish hospital group Quirón from fellow private equity group Doughty Hanson by the end of June 2014.
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