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Interview: James Cercone, president and founder, Sanigest Internacional

No one can rival Cercone’s expertise running and consulting on private healthcare service groups across the Developing World. In this wide ranging interview, we look at insurance trends, how hospital and diagnostic chains are growing and what the combination of information transparency and international hospital chains will look like in a few years time.

Turkish PPP hospital programme gathers pace

The regeneration of Turkey’s healthcare infrastructure is moving ahead but securing private contractors has proved difficult for laboratory services. Of the 30 health campuses originally planned, 14 are at the tender stage or further. Our sources suggest that only 8-10 will see the light of day due to funding difficulties. But contracts with private operators worth over a billion euros each have already been signed.

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO, Affidea

Euromedic, the imaging and oncology group has rebranded as Affidea, in a move which suggests that it is set to move beyond Europe. We talk to Moulavasilis about the group’s plans.

City Clinic boosts oncology in Bulgaria

Bulgarian hospital chain City Clinic is set to build three new facilities across the country in a BGN200m (€102m) investment. We spoke to Entrea Capital, the investment advisory group working with City Clinic, about the group’s expansion.

From around the world…

Our weekly summary of healthcare news from around the world. This week we look at India, Malaysia, China, Thailand and the Middle East.

FREE BLOG The Top 100 then and now

It is interesting to compare our European Top 100 private operators for 2014, which we published a few weeks ago, with the Top 100 Hospital groups we compiled back in 2009. How much has their culmalitive sales risen by in five years, do you think?

Interview: Martin Swegmark, CEO, Purch

Procurement remains an area where healthcare providers can make substantial savings. Swedish-based Purch has started benchmarking prices across Europe, and works for the public sector in Norway and Sweden and for private players in seven countries. CEO Martin Swegmark joined what became the hospital chain Capio in 1998 and later spent a long time at the lab group Unilabs where he was involved in procurement projects where they achieved Pan-European pricing contracts from suppliers.

Lab and imaging projects prove tough

The massive long-term lab and imaging service contracts associated with the big Turkish hospital PFIs are proving a headache for providers to price.

Interview: Vuk Vukovic, Partner, Blue Sea Capital

MediGroup is Serbia’s largest private healthcare provider. As well as a private hospital with 60 beds, it has a chain of outpatient clinics and recently bought the largest ophthalmology practice in the country. We talk to Vuk Vukovic at investor Blue Sea Capital about Medigroup’s business model and the Serbian market.

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