The CMA (the UK's competition authority) has given the green light to the merger between NHS-focussed UK dental group Rodericks Dental and rival Dental Partners.
Should insurers be payors or players? Should they move from treatment to prevention? How do insurers get better data? These three questions were top of the agenda at the Global Health Insurance Conference in Prague last week.
At the recent healthcare insurance conference in Prague, HBI heard about insurees' concerns by age demographic - and how insurers were striving to address them.
The dental market in Ireland may not be the largest in Europe, but it is largely (80% plus) a private market with very little consolidation. So why haven't we seen more consolidation? HBI speaks to a market expert to find out more.
HBI catches up with co-founders Frederic Llordachs, CEO, and Carmen Pauline Rios Benton, COO, of new chronic disease monitoring group Doctomatic, a remote patient monitoring solution for chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, COPD and heart failure, which uses AI to help detect problems at an early stage.
Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is planning to shift as much as 25% of care which is currently done on an inpatient basis to outpatient, in the country's biggest health care reform in 20 years. But Germany is already unique amongst the big 5 in that it already spends slightly more on ambulatory care than inpatient care.
According to the Saudi Central Bank, gross healthcare insurance premiums in Saudi Arabia rose 32% to SR25.1 billion (€6.78 bn) between 2017 and 2021. Healthcare now totals as much as 59.7% of total insurance in the rich oil state.
Major UAE hospital group Burjeel Holdings has chosen to set its IPO price at just 2 dirhams ($0.54) per share. It plans to sell 11% of its share capital (550.7 million shares) when it goes public on Monday, October 10, which will raise 1.1bn dirhams ($299.51m) at this price.
Indian health care is seeing a flurry of activity. Evercare-owned Care Hospitals is reportedly up for sale in India, while IHH Healthcare Bhd has expressed renewed interest in India after the Indian Supreme Court passed judgement in relation to its contentious dealings with Fortis. Meantime, the largest shareholder in India's second largest eye hospital has sold its stake.
As a sector more resilient than most to recession, it’s no surprise that private equity and others are interested in getting involved in healthcare services. It also gives a great opportunity for a diversified portfolio as healthcare provision covers such a wide base - pharma, medtech, life sciences and services. And yet despite the economic environment and the relative safety and benefits, it seems that private equity may not be as interested as they could be.
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