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Forget wearables – implantables will change healthcare forever

Wearable technology is cutting edge today - but it's nothing compared to the revolution that implantable technology will soon bring to the marketplace. That could see big medtech companies reconfiguring healthcare services and delivering many of them directly.
March 9, 2018

Interview: Nick Sanderson, CEO, Audley Group

In 2017 UK institutional investors finally discovered the assisted living sector, with Legal and General and Axa both buying operators.  Yet the sector remains tiny in the UK, thanks to older Brits fixation with remaining in their own homes as well as severe planning restrictions.  Nonetheless, there is high demand, property investors have fallen in love with the sector and governments the world over are rethinking their attitude to the sector. Audley Group is the largest player in the sector, Nick has been in the sector since 1986 and chairs the sector’s trade association, Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO).
March 9, 2018

Bridgepoint launches Care UK nursing home sale

Private equity group Bridgepoint has launched the sale of Care UK's nursing home segment. It could fetch a multiple twice what it paid when acquiring and de-listing the company in 2010, having tripled revenues and increased EBITDA by a third since then. We talk to a healthcare real estate expert to find out more.
March 1, 2018

Natalie Douglas quits Healthcare at Home

The CEO of Healthcare at Home, the high revenue, low margin medicalised homecare giant with billions in revenue in the UK and a sales presence in DACH, has stepped down.
February 28, 2018

Ribera Salud appoints ex-UK healthcare minister Alan Milburn

Ribera Salud, the Spanish hospital management company which is majority owned by US giant Centene Corporation has appointed Alan Milburn, a former Labour Minister of Health to its board. What does this tell us about its plans for the UK? 
February 20, 2018

Are you ready for GDPR?

The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.
February 19, 2018

Care UK to sell nursing home arm

Care UK, the Bridgepoint-owned UK care group is looking to sell its nursing home division. Advisory sources say that the division had 2017 sales of £290m with £40m EBITDA. 
February 9, 2018

Interview: Richard Banks, Virtus Health

Australia-based fertility network Virtus Health Limited runs a series of clinics in Ireland, is making inroads in Denmark, and has a presence in Singapore. Healthcare Europa talks to European MD Richard Banks about strategy, expansion, and the market.
February 5, 2018

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 31, 2018
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