Some revered global brands have become unstuck in their internationalisation by ceding control of a brand without any quality assurance. Panellists at HBI 2021 discussed how to manage that process more effectively.
Volumes for Romania's private hospitals are expected to jump after a law allowing inpatients to top up state tariffs with a co-payment came into force.
Blocks Group has acquired Aktios, the leading operator of elderly and dementia care homes in Greece. We talk to Ilian Grigorov, Chairman and CEO of Blocks Group, about the deal and the group's future expansion plans in Southeast Europe.
EU countries have already earmarked over €47bn euros to spend on health care from the €672bn Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the continent's centrepiece of COVID-19 recovery. Digital innovation, primary care and long-term care are clear spending priorities across the board. We should know the full allocations next week.
PE firm Mid Europa has pushed back its exit horizon for Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria to 2024 at the earliest, three years later than it planned to pre-Covid. Regina Maria grew revenues 27% in 2020.
Private sector penetration of care home markets varies across Europe. This week's infographic shows how care home ownership divides between the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors in European countries.
Romanian healthcare provider Santa Maria, part of listed group Medlife, has grown its revenue by fivefold since 2016 mostly from patients outsourced to it by the Romanian NHS. HBI speaks to the group's CEO to find out more.
With 125 million people - 80 million of whom live in the big four (Poland, Romania, Czechia and Hungary) - CEE is a large and diverse market. But is it a tempting one? HBI-365 members heard an expert panel in our CEE State of the Regions broadcast suggest that while COVID is creating huge problems across the world, it is also creating opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the working patterns and environments of every type of workforce, resulting in big hits to free-for-service (FFS) business models and new opportunities in remote care. Panellists from Medicover, Medigold and Qualitas discussed this and how good occupational healthcare can reduce the costs of absenteeism by half, at last week's HBI Big Picture Seminar.
In a bid to boost retention, Hungry has increased public salaries for doctors by as much as 120%. A similar hike in Romania last year damaged the bottom line of the private sector. But HBI hears that three-quarters of doctors are refusing to sign the new contract and it could have the opposite effect by taking doctors out of the public sector altogether.
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