With HBI 2024 now under a week away, we spoke with Ambika Jindal, Group Head of Sustainability Integration & Implementation at ING, about the bank’s sustainability journey and the importance of sustainability generally in the healthcare sector.
It is tempting to think of universal health coverage as a quantitative endeavour since, after all, the goal is to bring sustainable and accessible health care to more and more of the planet’s people. But while numbers and quantity matter, the mission is about quality at its heart.
Few relationships embody and require trust quite like the one between patients and doctors. Every minute of every day, all over the planet, people put their lives in the hands of health care professionals and the facilities they work in.
TVM Capital Healthcare, an emerging markets PE firm based out of Singapore and Dubai, has raised $250 million to invest in the ongoing transformation of Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector. The PE firm says that, when combined with co-investments from its partner base, it expects a total of $400-500 million to be mobilised by its Afiyah Fund, making it “the largest of its kind”.
UK digital health company Careology has expanded into the US via a partnership with Evolent, a company that provides a care navigation service to cancer patients. Paul Landau, Careology’s founder and CEO, explained to us how the company’s digital platform will enhance the scalability of Evolent’s service, and how the care navigation model, which currently only exists in the US, could improve cancer care in Europe.
Dr. Volker Wendel founded Sanoptis in 2018 in Switzerland with Carsten Horn. Six years later, the group has grown to more than 400 locations across six European countries. The group was initially backed by PE firm Telemos Capital, who then sold it to Belgian holding company Group Bruxelles Lambert (in 2022). Wendel explains to us how the group is able to add value to ophthalmologists who join the network and shares which areas the group will be focusing on in the coming years.
With HBI 2024 now just weeks away, we spoke with Dr Tyson Welzel, Group Chief Innovation Officer at Mediclinic, about the company's focus on achieving carbon neutrality as part of its focus on innovation.
Paul Morgan, CEO of Wallacea Living, a luxury UK retirement village provider, recently went on a trip to New Zealand to see what could be learnt from its retirement village sector. He shared some of his findings with us.
With HBI 2024 approaching, we spoke with Matt Williams, Group CEO & Director at Africa Healthcare Network (AHN), Sub Saharan Africa’s largest dialysis chain, about the company's pioneering work in underserved parts of the continent.
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