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HBI 2026: Investing in Emerging Markets Summit in partnership with the IFC

At HBI 2026, healthcare executives and investors highlighted both the opportunities and the operational complexity involved in succeeding in emerging markets during the Investing in Emerging Markets Summit, held in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a development bank which is part of the World Bank Group.
May 21, 2026

Is the profit motive at odds with impact investing goals in emerging market healthcare?

Last week Bloomberg accused US private equity firm TPG of putting profit before the interest of patients in various emerging market hospitals it has invested in. We spoke to TPG to get their response to the specific accusations made against them. We also spoke to others operating in Africa about whether there is, at a more general level, a tension between seeking profit whilst simultaneously seeking to achieve impact investing goals in emerging market healthcare. 
September 4, 2025

Lusíadas Saúde rolls out co-governance model in Portugal where doctors can become shareholders

Lusíadas Saúde, Portugal’s third-largest private hospital group and part of the French hospital group Vivalto Santé, is introducing ‘Terceira Via’ (‘Third Way’), a co-governance model that allows doctors and dental surgeons to be shareholders and participate in shaping the group’s strategic direction. Currently being implemented, the initiative is open to doctors across Lusíadas hospitals and its HeyDoc dental clinic network, offering clinicians the opportunity to engage directly in the organisation’s future.
July 31, 2025

Sweden’s Supreme Court rules against Attendo in first-of-its-kind whistleblowing case

Sweden’s Supreme Court has upheld the judgement of two lower courts that a care assistant working at pan-Nordic for-profit care group Attendo had the right to go to the media with concerns about inadequate measures being taken against covid infection, in the first case of a company being prosecuted under a new Swedish law protecting whistleblowers.
November 22, 2024

Spanish private healthcare study highlights looming workforce crisis

A recent study by the Spanish Private Health Alliance (ASPE) has revealed an impending shortage of specialist physicians due to an upcoming wave of retirements. The report, titled 'Medical Specialists in Private Healthcare', analysed data from 24,189 medical professionals in Spain across 104 medical centres, revealing that 40% of specialist doctors in the private sector […]
August 20, 2024

Interview: Duncan Leggat, Cymphony

Cymphony is a UK company that provides customer communications solutions such as telephone answering and appointment booking to private healthcare providers. In an interview with HBI, Duncan Leggat, Cymphony’s Finance Director, argued that high quality, personalised customer service is an essential part of a good healthcare service, and that, for providers focused on the premium/private-pay part of the market, the good old fashioned telephone is generally the most effective tool for achieving this.
August 8, 2024
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