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NMC shares soar 33% on acquisition of Al-Zahra

NMC, the second largest hospital network in the UAE, has acquired Al Zahra Hospital, one of the largest medical facilities in UAE, based in the Emirate of Sharjah. Healthcare Nova speaks to NMC’s manager for corporate projects, Sameer Hasan, to understand the deal.
April 11, 2017

Real solutions for retention and recruitment

Recruitment, retention and training are now the primary challenges for the healthcare services industry. The obvious solution to keeping staff - paying more – is no longer working. Private operators around the world are now fishing in a global market that's short of 15m healthcare workers. So what practical solutions are operators putting into force and what really works? We talk to 25 operators from across the world.
March 9, 2017

Mediclinic’s Middle East problems

Insiders at Arab Health were talking about Mediclinic’s Middle East problems several weeks before the announcement which saw the shares fall 5%. So what are they saying?
February 21, 2017

TMC eyes up Saudi Arabia

We caught up with Filipino hospital operator The Medical City and its plans for the GCC to meet the needs of the millions strong filipino diaspora. It also plans to target low paid workers from other countries.
February 9, 2017

Who is buying Atlas Healthcare?

Atlas Healthcare, which runs two hospitals in Oman, is reportedly about to be taken over by a UAE-based operator for OMR10m (US$26m).
February 1, 2017

Swedish entrepreneur gives GCC dentistry a polish

Per Rehnberg, former boss of Colosseum Smile, the largest private dentistry chain in the Nordics is now building a chain in the GCC starting with Abu Dhabi. He started off by going mystery shopping with his own choppers and some X-rays. What did he learn about the sector?
January 18, 2017

Interview: Daniel Öhman, CEO, GHP

With 18 facilities across Sweden, Finland and the UAE, GHP has pioneered “holistic” centres, each focused on specific conditions. So someone with a back problem can get physiotherapy, surgery, osteopathy and even psychiatry from one centre. GHP is also now managing four hospitals with 700 staff in the UAE. We talk to Öhman about GHP’s work with Swedish insurer Skandia which now pays the company on a per capita/quality basis for patients with orthopaedic and spine problems, conditions which make up nearly half of all pay-outs for insurers. We think this move to per capita payments for such conditions from some form of DRG payment is unique in Europe.
December 2, 2016
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