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FREE BLOG Life struggles

Life Healthcare, the smallest and most timid of SA’s Big Three, has announced a US$1bn purse for acquisitions in Europe. The group is looking to buy a mature business in a market where English is the lingua franca, which includes Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, according to CEO André Meyer. What could it buy?
September 20, 2016

Life Healthcare on a $1bn European hunt

Life Healthcare wants to spend up to US$1bn in a European country, where English is the business language, and is open to occupational healthcare, dialysis, mental health, oncology and more.
September 20, 2016

International hospital groups: Financial review and comparison

How is the international hospital sector faring? We look at the results to March or June from the four main players: Australian operator Ramsay Health Care and the Big Three South Africans - Netcare, Mediclinic and Lifehealth. What do they say about their health and the globalisation of the private hospital sector. We talk to analysts.
September 8, 2016

South Africa: NHI, bye bye?

Rumours are circulating in the South African press that the landmark National Health Insurance policy, which proposes to expand subsidised health insurance to the whole population, is to be scrapped or radically altered. The tabloid Noseweek reports the Treasury will not allow the White Paper to become policy, as it’s “completely unaffordable under current or foreseeable circumstances.”
September 8, 2016

FREE BLOG The lessons of Universal Health Coverage

This week we take a look at universal health coverage (UHC). This is central to the global health policy agenda and will remain so, at least until 2030, when the world evaluates its progress towards the sustainable development goals. What is really fascinating about UHC, however, is that it does not exist - it is an ideal. Even more so, it’s not a particularly well-defined one and is difficult to measure. This means that private healthcare, whose markets will be closely shaped by UHC, has little certainty. So what can we say for sure?
July 20, 2016

Universal health coverage and private health care: Friends or foes?

Universal Health Coverage is now explicitly targeted by the third sustainable development goal set out by the United Nations. Increasingly, governments around the world want to offer it to their citizenry. Where the capacity will come from is less certain. In this report, Healthcare Nova asks experts at the forefront of UHC schemes from India to Mexico, where UHC is today and what role the private sector should play in extending healthcare access to the poor?
July 13, 2016

Traditional medicine endorsed by South African doctors

A seemingly innocuous question on the continued role of traditional or faith-based healers in South African healthcare at the Africa Health conference, sparked a fascinating discussion on the practice, which cannot be funded by insurers by law, and yet is relied upon by many in a country, which a recent report found had the lowest life expectancy of 194 countries.
June 22, 2016

Life deal still some way off

Life Healthcare of South Africa is looking for acquisitions in attractive markets, but a deal is still some way off, says head of investor relations, Adam Pyle. Eastern Europe could offer synergies with Life’s Polish operation, he says, but so could South Asia or another Indian acquisition with Max Healthcare, Life's existing Indian venture.
June 17, 2016

Mobile health clinic for US$22,000

Clinic In A Can offers fully resourced, sterile and climate controlled medical clinics, with their own sources of water and power that can be shipped to any location in the world within days. They offer a radical solution to the widespread scarcity of basic healthcare infrastructure and equipment and a powerful tool for disaster relief, says Dr Michael Joseph Wawrzewski III, CEO and cofounder. Its shipping container clinics are now in 12 countries. He gave Healthcare Nova a tour.
June 17, 2016
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