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Georgian healthcare reforms hit private operators’ profits

Georgia has privatised many of its hospitals since 2008, but we hear that reforms, plus much later payments, are creating big problems for private hospitals, which are 80% dependent on the state. We also talk to a source close to one of the country's largest healthcare operators. 
November 22, 2017

Interview: Shamsheer Vayalil, CEO, VPS Healthcare

VPS Healthcare, the GCC/Indian hospital and generic drugs group, with 2017 sales of about $1bn, plans to IPO within 2-3 years. Meanwhile, it wants to invest $150m in Indian hospitals. VPS founder 40 year-old Dr Shamsheer Vayalil, has also just launched a private equity fund Trovant Capital which has made its first investment buying a hunk of Amanat, a GCC fund which is investing (rather slowly) in healthcare and education. We caught up with him in London.
November 22, 2017

Rural US healthcare giant plans to open 300 primary care clinics in Ghana

A giant US-based rural health group is looking to expand its operations in Ghana, from 25 clinics to 300 over the next 3-4 years. We speak to Dr Dan Blue and Jim Slack, Executive VP and VP respectively of Sanford World Clinics about expansion, working with the Ghanaian government and reaching break-even.
November 22, 2017

Laureate sells off private universities in Europe

Laureate Education Inc, the NASDAQ listed private university chain, has agreed to sell for-profit European University Cyprus (EUC), which has a medical school and the only accredited dentistry program in Cyprus. We hear other European assets may follow.
November 22, 2017

Interview: Natalie Douglas, CEO, Healthcare at Home

Vetruvian-owned medicalised homecare group Healthcare at Home has been turned round. There are straws in the wind that suggest it might soon be for sale. We talk to CEO Natalie Douglas about the company, which is by far the largest provider of medical care around drugs in the home in UK, and is also active across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. 
November 21, 2017

Borelius quits as Attendo CEO

In a shock move, the man who has built Attendo into the largest Nordic care group over more than a decade announced his departure.
November 21, 2017
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