Several big Brazilian vertically integrated insurance/hospital groups are planning IPOs. Meanwhile, big US healthcare insurers and Chinese investors are sniffing around.
Healthcare Europa hears that authorities in Germany are granting exemptions to nursing home providers that allow them to temporarily continue operating with lower single bedroom ratios than required by new laws imposed at the state level.
A firesale of bargain basement hospitals due to India’s new bankruptcy law will dominate the country’s M&A activity in 2018 we heard today. So who will buy what?
Local operators say they are impressed by plans from Dubai Health Authority to extend mandatory insurance cover to include the three most common forms of cancer. But they would like to see it crack down on massive medical wastage and fraud.
London-listed London-listed NMC Health has entered the Egyptian hospital sector through its management contract with UAE-based Emirates Healthcare Group, which has bought a stake in one of the top two players there. Local outlets have misreported this as an NMC acquisition, who spoke to us to clarify. Here we give more background.
Generally, healthcare operators across the world offer similar services, albeit with varying degrees of funding, efficiency, technology - and of course success. But occasionally, cultural differences throw up a service which is respected and relied on in one region, and yet ignored everywhere else.
The UK’s third largest provider of learning disability care will be sold by Montreux Capital Management to the Australian investment manager AMP Capital.
It’s more than five years since the Italian government, buckling under a national debt of around 125% of GDP, implemented Mario Monti’s austerity measures, described as one of the severest responses to the financial crisis in Europe at that time.
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