This week we calculate the ratio of elderly care beds for all citizens aged 85 and over across sixteen European countries. The resulting graphic gives a telling overview of provision and opportunities across different markets.
Javier Echevarria, CEO, Europe and LatAm of Veritas International (VI) has one of the most interesting challenges in marketing - how do you persuade wealthy consumers to spend around $2,000 on predictive whole genome sequencing (WGS)? He has a broad canvas - his remit is to sell across LatAm, UAE, Europe and Japan.
In the wake of the Falck “dirty tricks” scandal which HBI reported on last week, Danish private companies could soon face the prospect of seeing public contracts cancelled if they are prosecuted.
Falck, the world’s largest emergency services group, is being reported to the police following a ruling by the Danish Competition Council that it abused its dominant position to push a rival out of the market.
The number of people who are covered by private health insurance has largely risen across Europe in the past decade, according to a report by the OECD.
Market forces are not the only factors determining the fate of private providers in Nordic elderly care. As local elections near in Norway and national government in Sweden continues to be run by a struggling minority group, we speak to operators in both countries and take a look at how a political climate can create a warm welcome to the private market - or rain on its parade.
Swedish care provider Ambea has acquired the rival care operations of Aleris in Sweden, Norway and Denmark for SEK 2.6bn (€252m), 14x EBITA. Healthcare Europa speaks to Ambea CEO Frederik Gren.
A Danish-telehealth provider has signed a contract with a regional health authority to help deliver online consultations, which it says makes it the first digital health company to sell B2G in the country.
Here we look at what strategies private medical insurers plan to follow over the next few years based on our attendance at UniGlobal's 10th conference in Berlin. This complements our other article - International Healthcare Insurers - It's a Hard Life - which gives a picture of where insurers really are today.
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