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Report: IFC Conference – Them and Us

The World Health Assembly, the largest gathering of healthcare policy makers and stakeholders, begins this week. And nobody expects anything but a cursory mention of private healthcare. The mood in Prague at the recent IFC conference reflected growing frustration with policymakers and a perceived ignorance of the private sector’s offering. But partnership remains indispensable in this industry and some operators see a sea change in attitude.

Report: Successful business models in emerging markets

The IFC conference was brim full of confident operators who, despite all the obstacles, are making money and seeing huge growth in private healthcare in Emerging Markets. We report on the new business models.

FREE BLOG Cross-Border Investment Will Transform Global Health Systems

Globalization—whether you like it or not—has been the major force shaping markets for industrial goods for the past century. Until recently, services, including health services, were largely domestic businesses operating in national markets. Today, technology has given us the ability to tap knowledge workers regardless of geographic locations, creating a global market for services writes […]

Ramsay targets France

Plans for further acquisitions in France were announced by Chris Rex, managing director of Ramsay Health Care, this week. French tariff reductions of 2.5% may create opportunities in the market he claims. But it remains too early to assess the acquisition of General de Santé (GdS), according to analysts.

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.

Kiss, Marry, Avoid

Paulo Malo president and founder of Malo Clinic announced the opening of six clinics in India four months whilst speaking at the Healthcare Europa 2015 conference this week in London.

The re-shoring of dental tech

Dental tech work can be anywhere between 10% to 50% of a dentist’s sales, estimates Per Rehnberg, CEO of Colosseum Smile. For some time the trend throughout Europe has been to send this work to places like China or India where the prices are as much as four times lower. But the tides are changing; dental tech is coming back to Europe.

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