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Report: Huge investor interest at Healthcare Europa 2015

Click here to see all the presentations from Healthcare Europa 2015 How is the private healthcare services sector in Europe and beyond changing? Healthcare Europa 2015 provided a snapshot of the sector. We report. The fifth Healthcare Europa conference saw delegate numbers double to 430 with streams for acute, dentistry, elderly care and diagnostics in […]

FREE BLOG Big battalions win the day

It is very clear now that the future in emerging markets lies with the big platforms who can offer a wide array of services and benefit from economies of scale. look at how NMC has seen its market capitalisation rocket by nearly £200m after making two acquisitions for little more than a quarter of that sum.

FREE BLOG The drive for universal health coverage

The global push for universal health coverage in the Emerging Markets is gathering pace, driven and stewarded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In India, revolutionary health insurance systems have already granted access to 37 million of the poorest and most marginalised families. Brazil’s “Expanded right to health”, Mexico’s “Seguro Popular” and Thailand’s Universal Coverage scheme are just three other examples.

Report: South Africa: Trouble in the Rainbow Nation?

South Africa is embarking on an ambitious process of reform to redress its historic imbalance in healthcare delivery. The National Health Insurance policy envisions far-reaching change in both the payment and provision of healthcare. The enormously successful private sector, however, has been left in the dark over its future role. What does the future hold for this $30 billion private healthcare market?

Report: The investor landscape in the Emerging Markets

Here we name and categorise the major investors in private healthcare services in the Developing World and get their view on the opportunities and problems they face. Developing World healthcare services have suddenly become wildly popular. New listed investment vehicles, such as GCC-based Amanat and Asian Healthcare Group in Malaysia have raised hundreds of millions of dollars with the promise of investing in healthcare services. Meanwhile, established private equity houses are launching funds worth up to $1bn and large healthcare services operators from Indonesia to Egypt are carrying out heavily oversubscribed IPOs on very high multiples.

Carlyle seeks $694m stake in Brazil’s Rede D’Or

Private equity house Carlyle is reportedly looking to pay as much as R$2bn ($694 million) for a stake in Rede D’Or, Brazil’s biggest private hospital group with forecast 2014 sales of R$5.5bn ($1.7bn), after the government opened up private healthcare to foreign investors in January 2015.

Egyptian lab IPO likely in April or May

Expect Integrated Diagnostic Holdings to IPO on the London and Egyptian stock markets in April or May. The IPO was delayed from February 2015. We look at why.

Mexico in favour of PPPs

In the Developing World, PPPs are a hot topic. When widespread issues of poor infrastructure development, low quality services, in-efficiency and over-capacity hamper public healthcare sectors, PPP projects can help.

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