Despite increasing bureaucracy, spiralling costs, and local authority budget cuts, there is still money to be made in UK social care – but where and how?
Boutique US advisory firm ABISA says it is working with Swiss clients for a healthcare deal in Eastern Europe. The expansion is likely to focus on medical tourism, telehealth and oncology - ABISA’s three main areas of expertise. We talk to founder Nick Hernandez.
The ratings website for adult social care, TrustedCare, which also publishes a directory of all care providers in the UK, and a help and advice section for consumers, has now been up and running for four years. So why has it received just 524 of its own reviews?
Global health care giant, Bupa, is close to a sale and leaseback deal for 150 of its UK care homes. We name both the buyer and the group’s further real estate plans.
Hermitage Medical Clinic in West Dublin saw a 36% drop in pretax profit, while Blackrock Clinic's profits fell slightly, according to accounts just lodged at Companies Registration Office in Ireland. Both private hospitals blame the lack of a rise in insurers' reimbursement rates.
Across emerging markets, the best doctors are often viewed – not least by themselves – as the stars of the show in and out of the (medical) theatre. They can earn a lot. Top doctors in India make over $1m a year. And they attract hordes of patients.
Why is Max Healthcare reluctant to leave Northern India at home – but looking to bring Indian doctors to the UK? How does it retain staff predisposed to head for the Gulf? And how are its doctors reacting to being independently assessed for quality?
What’s going wrong at Mediclinic – and why isn't it being more open about its problems? That’s a question being asked by some analysts after six monthly figures suggested swallowing up Al Noor has given South Africa’s largest hospital group indigestion.
A weaker pound has opened up the UK healthcare property market to a new pool of investors, Julian Evans, head of healthcare at the surveyor Knight Frank, told us this morning.
How do the big banks decide to lend – and how do they view the healthcare market? We speak with Ian Wootton, EMEA head of healthcare corporate banking division at Japan’s largest bank, MUFG.
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