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Interview: Julian Andriesz, CEO, Verita Healthcare

The massive latent demand to live longer is being tapped by a new generation of health care providers. British entrepreneur Julian Andriesz, 53, made a first fortune building business in SE Asia and got into prevention after watching his mother die of ovarian cancer, diagnosed late. He says his intention is to help his clients, whether they are healthy, have cancer or auto-immune diseases, to live longer, better lives. Verita has a chain of 10 clinics, believes its digital health disease prevention and management platform is about to become the largest in the world and owns IP, and research and manufacturing in Europe, Asia and Australia.
September 12, 2019

Capio deal turns Ramsay into majority-European-revenue company

Ramsay Health Care, the hospital group spanning Australia, SE Asia and Europe grew revenues 24.4% to US$7.7bn in the year to June 2019 although four-fifths of growth was from the Capio acquisition. Over half of its reported sales now come from Europe, the UK segment has improved while a German divestment is still on the cards.
September 5, 2019

Quironsalud replicates Spanish model in Colombia

Fresenius Helios-owned Spanish hospital group Quironsalud has acquired two more hospitals in Medellin, Colombia, and looks to be mirroring its Spanish strategy of building dominant positions in central urban markets. We talk to Fresenius Helios.
September 5, 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

Visualising the crisis in homecare staff

The ratio between nurses and personal carers and populations over 65 tells you a lot about a country's ability to provide adequate homecare. Here we track the number for eight OECD countries. Overall the ratio has dropped.
August 29, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: GesundHeits sale falls through

HBI exclusively hears that German medicalised homecare specialist GesundHeits GmbH (GHD) has pulled the plug on its sales process, despite entering a second round of talks and claiming it received interest from over 25 prospective buyers. We speak to a market expert about what happened.
August 22, 2019

Pushing water up a hill – the trials and tribulations of the German hospital market

What does the future look like for the German hospital sector - for-profit, public or not-for-profit?  Two things are sure. In the land of over-bedded, many are effectively zombies, kept alive by hand-outs from local politicians. That category would include all small local general hospitals, many general regional hospitals and sub-scale specialist hospitals. "In an […]
August 8, 2019
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