France and Greece have joined the growing list of European countries to make vaccinations mandatory for care home staff. Both Italy and UK already have policies on mandatory vaccination. Debate continues to rage about the effect these policies will have on staffing in a sector that already struggles with recruitment and retention.
Blocks Group has acquired Aktios, the leading operator of elderly and dementia care homes in Greece. We talk to Ilian Grigorov, Chairman and CEO of Blocks Group, about the deal and the group's future expansion plans in Southeast Europe.
The Greek care home sector gets scant support from a periodically hostile government and has yet to attract major interest from large European nursing home groups and investors. Despite this, the population is ageing rapidly and demand for nursing care is growing. HBI talks to two market experts about the pandemic in Greece and the future of the market.
Greek hospital operators and insurers are mulling over the implications of CVC's acquisition of the largest private medical insurer in Greece. The private equity investor already owns most of the top hospitals.
CVC Capital Partners is acquiring a 90% stake in Greece-based Ethniki Insurance from National Bank of Greece (NBG) in a deal that values the business at €505m.
HBI speaks exclusively to George Spanos, chairman and CEO of Greece's largest primary care and diagnostic chain, about the company's plans for the future and whether rumours the company might be for sale are true.
Darzalas Capital, the investment firm of Ilian Grigorov, has begun the creation of a Southeast European post-acute rehab and elderly care platform with the acquisition of Greece's largest specialised rehabilitation hospital for nominal €1 plus liabilities. We talk to Grigorov.
Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.
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