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Big deal in Spanish healthcare property as REIT listing looms

Oaktree-backed Spanish healthcare property investor Healthcare Activos has sold 20 assets to company backed by Spanish investors and eyeing REIT listing in Spain in the next two years. We talk to Activos founder and minority shareholder in both companies, Jorge Guarner, about the deal and the Spanish market.
September 11, 2019

Integrated healthcare: What works, what doesn’t

What is integrated health care as practiced today in Europe? What can it deliver? And what are the barriers to its adoption>?  We look at the lessons from three large projects that have all run for over a decade - The Wigan Deal (UK), Tiohundra (Sweden) and Kinzigtal/OptiMedis (Germany). All three will present at the HBI Policy Summit, April 20-22, 2020, London. 
September 2, 2019

Amil under pressure as business is restructured

UnitedHealth Group (UHG) is implementing cost-cutting measures to improve Brazilian insurer Amil's balance sheet and has laid off 300 employees as it restructures operations.
August 29, 2019

UK NHS Trust pulling out of Abu Dhabi

We hear that a UK NHS Trust, one of several to have set up healthcare facilities in the GCC in the past decade, is close to offloading its Abu Dhabi clinic to a local private operator. We discuss the success of NHS Trusts in the GCC generally.
August 22, 2019

Ambea’s Norwegian turnaround requires “a lot more work”

Pan-Nordic care provider Ambea has released Q2 2019 results showing its Norwegian business requires "a lot more work" before achieving a successful turnaround and margin improvement. Group-wide sales nearly doubled thanks to its recent large acquisition although grow only 1% organically. The results were well-received by the market. Its share price rose 8% to a high of SEK 74 (€6.80) over the morning of the results day, Tuesday August 20th.
August 21, 2019

Irish homecare company grows workforce exponentially

Belfast-based domiciliary care provider Connected Health has expanded into the Republic and claims to be growing its workforce exponentially. We speak to a director at the company and take a look at the Irish market.
August 21, 2019

Interview: Peter Graf, CEO, Tiohundra

Uniquely, we think in Europe, Tiohundra, an organisation serving a municipality of 62,000, has fully merged social care and health care delivery. Social care (elderly care, disabled care, homecare, psychiatry) and health care (hospitals and primary care) – have been melded in to a single organisation. So what are the learnings? And are we going […]
August 16, 2019

Terveystalo conjures CEO out of Finnair

Terveystalo has appointed a man who spent 18 years at a Finnish airline as its new CEO. In the same week, Pihlajalinna is dropping 180 of its management staff to cut costs.
August 15, 2019

Is China a threat to Europe’s imaging suppliers?

Does Europe's imaging equipment supply oligopoly - Siemens Healthineers, Philips and GE Healthcare - face a threat from cheaper Chinese alternatives? Two service operators give HBI different viewpoints.
August 14, 2019

Ex-Abraaj health fund’s greenfield projects finally coming online

The Evercare Health Fund, formerly Abraaj's Growth Markets Health Fund (AGHF) before the PE firm's fall from grace and now managed by TPG, is finally starting to deliver on its big greenfield projects in the most difficult emerging markets, with the Pakistan hospital recently opened and the Lagos, Nigeria, facility expected in Q2 2020. We talk to a source close to Evercare about the Lahore hospital, the whole platform today and the strategy going forward.
August 8, 2019
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