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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

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO, Diaverum 

Will international dialysis group Diaverum IPO or sell? We catch up with its new CEO, the former boss of international imaging group Affidea. Rarely have we met such an enthusiastic leader. That may be just as well. Many wonder whether Diaverum, which has been owned by private equity house Bridgepoint since 2007, can ever be sexed up enough to attract a top price. If anyone can achieve this, it is Moulavasilis. 
July 3, 2019

Does Value Health have a future?

Value health is the revolutionary idea pioneered by Harvard guru Michael Porter. He had the temerity to suggest providers should be rewarded for quality, rather than activity and that the patient should be viewed and consulted as customers. Invented in the early noughties, it hit a high water mark 7-8 years ago when Obamacare was rolled out incorporating the concept. Then it felt like an inexorable river.
May 16, 2019

Portugal’s public insurer close to announcing new price list

The health insurer for Portugal's 1.2 million civil servants says it will soon announce its new price list for services rendered by the country's private hospitals, the biggest of which briefly cut ties with the body at the start of 2019. We talk to one of their executives.
May 8, 2019

Portuguese hospitals cut ties with public insurer

Portugal's three largest private hospital groups have all announced plans to cut ties with the health insurer covering the country's 1.2m civil servants. We talk to a market source about what effect it will have on their business and, crucially, how it increases the likelihood of a sale of one of them. In the last […]
February 21, 2019

DomusVi further expands in Portugal

France's third-largest nursing home operator by revenue is expanding in Portugal with the acquisition of a home outside Porto. We speak to a market expert who feels Portugal presents interesting opportunities for consolidators from abroad.
January 31, 2019
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