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Report: Global for-profit care home operators race into China

Healthcare Nova looks at the potential for residential care in China, names all the major foreign players active in the sector and talks to operators running homes today in China. How best can companies enter the market? And how large is it? What are the price points charged today for high-end care? By Helen Burgraff

Remo Schneider plans chain of incontinence studios

Remo Schneider, after having sold Senecura’s Swiss assisted living chain Senevita to Orpea, has left to set up a new venture. Schneider set up and ran the Senecura, the Austrian/Czech care home group, with Rudolf Oehlinger. Schneider has the rights to distribute a chair that will cure women of incontinence and men of erectile dysfunction […]

FREE BLOG NHS = British Leyland?

In the autumn of 2013 Lord Warner, a labour member in the House of Lords, described the NHS as similar to British Leyland, the state-owned car manufacturer, which went bankrupt costing the tax payer billions of pounds and the loss of 1m jobs in the Midlands. So, I was interested to find myself talking to a manager who moved to the NHS, and then into private healthcare, after starting his career, at, yes, BL!

Interview: Paulo Malo, President of Malo Clinic, Health & Wellness

Five years ago, implant surgeon Dr Paolo Malo was running a single dental clinic in Lisbon. Today the group has 42 clinics in 18 countries, including Angola, China and Colombia. That includes a 50,000 square metre clinic with a training centre in Lisbon and integrated clinics offering cosmetic surgery, ophthalmology and wellness in cities from […]

Bulgarian hospital group to raise €40m for expansion

City Hospital, the second-largest private Bulgarian hospital group, plans to raise €40m to build two new hospitals. We talk to CEO Ilian Grigorov about the group, the Bulgarian market and the future. Ilian and his colleagues will also be joining us at the annual Healthcare Europa conference on March 13, 2014.

All change in dialysis

The dialysis sector looks certain to consolidate fast in Europe. Bankers say that Bridgepoint is keen to exit Diaverum, which it bought near the height of the boom in late 2007. Meanwhile, they also say that Baxter looks near certain to buy EQT-backed Gambro.

Largest private hospital in Bulgaria for sale

Tokuda, the largest private hospital in Bulgaria - in fact, the largest in all of the former Warsaw Pact countries - is for sale. The 1,000-bed facility has a contract with the national health insurance fund.

Private sector grows in Bulgaria

The private hospital sector in Bulgaria continues to grow according to Illian Grigorov, CEO of City Hospitals who plans to plan to open a 60 bed cardiac and vascular centre in Sofia this autumn and a 90 bed hospital in Varna for 2013/2014. That means competing with foreign hospitals.

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