London-listed Russian healthcare provider MD Medical Group (MDMG) began diversifying last year, as a flattening IVF market saw it looking elsewhere for growth.
Spain's large and liberal IVF market has long attracted a steady stream of medical tourists into the country, but as other Europe markets catch up, this is beginning to dwindle. With the market already consolidated, where does this leave growth in the country's sector? HBI talks to an operator to find out more.
HBI can reveal that three substantial IVF groups are up for sale who, combined, are active in seven European countries. We reveal potential buyers, valuations and a snapshot of the markets.
HBI is downgrading its growth forecast for the Irish fertility market. Legislation which looked set to publicly fund IVF and set up a new fertility legislative framework and regulator remains unenacted, and sources tell us there is no realistic prospect of it coming into force soon.
Revenue at International healthcare group NMC breached $2bn for the first time in FY2018. The company repeated its 2019 guidance today (Thursday, March 7)- but its share price plummeted 9% as investors appeared to be cashing in.
We talk to the advisor behind the largest ever all-share merger in Nigeria's hospital sector, which recently closed, combining an Abraaj-owned group with a Lagos hospital. The deal coincides with the city's mandatory insurance rollout, a reform that could be helping to prompt a surge in new capacity where Nigeria most needs it.
HBI talks to Dr Helmut Schuehsler, chairman and CEO at TVM Capital Healthcare Partners, Dubai and Singapore, about the group’s prospective exit from its current healthcare assets, its hunt for new investments, and the MENA market more specifically.
London-listed EMEA healthcare group NMC Health says the final agreement on its joint venture in Saudi Arabia with state-owned investor Hassana will be signed in Q1 2019, which seems contrary to earlier filings saying it would be completed in the current quarter. We talk to CEO Prasanth Manghat about the deal there, the payor climate in neighbouring UAE and the group's strategy more broadly.
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