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Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO, Affidea

Euromedic, the imaging and oncology group has rebranded as Affidea, in a move which suggests that it is set to move beyond Europe. We talk to Moulavasilis about the group’s plans.

Interview: Franceso Longo, director, CERGAS

Professor Longo is a long-term analyst of the Italian NHS and the private sector. Here he predicts a boom for the private sector in all forms of post-acute care, explains why he expects private medical insurance to grow steeply and looks at how the private sector is acquiring not-for-profit operators.

Interview: Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle

How is Apollo expanding its outpatient presence and building businesses in diabetes, maternity and diagnostics? We talk to Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL) about his chain of 90 clinics and about AHLL’s acquisition of Nova Speciality Hospitals, a chain of ten ambulatory surgery clinics. How will AHLL expand in India, the Middle East and Africa?

Interview: Bart Diels, Managing Partner, Head of Health & Care, Gimv

Listed investment company Gimv (Euronext: GIMB) is unusual in that it covers every aspect of health – biopharma, medtech and healthcare services – with a focus on mid-caps and a Pan-European approach. It is willing to invest as little as a few million euros up to € 50m and can hold a stake for up to 10-12 years. Active in biopharma since the early eighties, it has also made several investments in healthcare services and medical technologies. So how does Mr. Diels who has worked in VC and private equity for 20 years, view healthcare services as an investment perspective?

Interview with Stéphane Pichon, managing partner at YourCare Consulting

Public and private operators in France have big questions over a controversial new healthcare reform bill. Healthcare Europa journalist Ariane Jugieux speaks to Stéphane Pichon, managing partner at Your Care Consult, about the repercussions the bill may have on the future of healthcare in France.

Interview: Martin Swegmark, CEO, Purch

Procurement remains an area where healthcare providers can make substantial savings. Swedish-based Purch has started benchmarking prices across Europe, and works for the public sector in Norway and Sweden and for private players in seven countries. CEO Martin Swegmark joined what became the hospital chain Capio in 1998 and later spent a long time at the lab group Unilabs where he was involved in procurement projects where they achieved Pan-European pricing contracts from suppliers.

Interview: Nasser Massoud, Executive Board Director, Global Head of Transactions & Corporate Development, InterHealth Canada

As revealed exclusively by Healthcare Europa three weeks ago, financing for the first operator led public-private partnership (PPP) in Poland has been finalised after a three-year process. Several more deals are already in the pipeline in Poland and Slovakia. Healthcare Europa journalist Rhiannon Williams speaks to Nasser Massoud of InterHealth Canada, the Toronto-based international healthcare management company that won the 30-year contract, about the deal and the future of PPPs.

Interview: Vuk Vukovic, Partner, Blue Sea Capital

MediGroup is Serbia’s largest private healthcare provider. As well as a private hospital with 60 beds, it has a chain of outpatient clinics and recently bought the largest ophthalmology practice in the country. We talk to Vuk Vukovic at investor Blue Sea Capital about Medigroup’s business model and the Serbian market.

Interview: Professor Julian Le Grand, London School of Economics

Mutuals in healthcare are a hot topic in the UK and Sweden, and are often seen as a alternative to for-profit operators. Here, Julian Le Grand, professor at the London School of Economics and an influential pro-competition adviser on healthcare to recent New Labour governments in the UK, talks to Healthcare Europa’s Max Hotopf about the rise of mutuals in the UK. Le Grand, who had a ring-side seat on many of the reforms carried out under New Labour, addresses and analyses the main methods of controlling healthcare systems – Trust, Mistrust, Patient Voice, Patient Choice and Regulation.

Interview: Jill Schwieters, EVP, Cielo, President Cielo Healthcare

People remain the main cost and the main asset for almost all healthcare service companies. Yet most operators could manage recruitment, training and retention better. Cielo Healthcare is the largest healthcare recruitment process outsourcer in the world and is active in Europe, Middle East, as well as North America. Schwieters has developed the business since its inception nine years ago. Before that, she was Chief HR Executive for the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system in the Midwest with nearly25,000 employees. Cielo is backed by AKKR, a fund raised by KKR to invest in service and technology companies.

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