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Wafer-thin health care service profits at Bupa

Why did Bupa, the international health insurer which is also one of the largest health care service players outside of the USA, announce its 2018 results so quietly that HBI isn't aware of any UK daily reporting them this year? The figures show that Bupa's £3.37bn of revenue from nursing homes, hospitals, dentistry and primary care across a dozen countries, barely made money. Could this be down to its interesting governance structure?
April 23, 2019

Interview: Michael Sandhu, Remedium RT

After a long career at radiotherapy supplier Varian where he ended as Vice President, Global Market Development, Michael has set up his own consultancy to advise governments, international agencies and the private sector on the development of radiation therapy services in general and the best business models.  HBI asks him where the opportunities are and what they look like. 
December 12, 2018

Quest Diagnostics changes strategy in emerging markets

Last week Healthcare Nova reported that US-based lab company Quest Diagnostics had sold its Indian medical diagnostics arm to Strand Life Sciences. We also reported that Quest has set up an international alliance of lab companies based in Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia. Are the two moves connected? We speak to Quest's MD of global markets, Mark Machulcz to find out more about the group's change of strategy.
October 24, 2018

European domiciliary care provider breaks even in Asia

Buurtzorg, a Dutch domiciliary care business, is finally breaking even on the Asian market after a challenging first few years. We speak to Buurtzorg Asia's CEO Stephan Dyckerhoff about the difficulties of implementing his model in the far East.
September 28, 2018

Building international homecare businesses

Domiciliary homecare is regarded with much scepticism by private equity and many large nursing home groups. How do you build quality?  How do you compete with mom'n'pops? But some groups are definitely building scale internationally.
June 15, 2018
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