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Orpea pledges to pay in full as restructuring rumours continue

French elderly care giant Orpea continues to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Over the last week, dozens of facilities were raided by the French authorities, talk continues to be rife about restructuring and potential exits, and contrary to previous assertions HBI understands the group now intends to pay back the full €56m owed to the state.
November 25, 2022

Interview: Maris Revalds, Chairman, Health Center 4

Anyone paying attention to the Baltic healthcare market - and at just six million people you'd be forgiven for not - will have noticed an aggressive consolidation of the sector by pharmacy chain & wholesaler, Repharm; something rarely seen elsewhere. Health Center 4 (Veselības centrs 4) is the second-largest to it in Latvia and chairman Revalds speaks on his competitor's moves while also giving us an overview of his business and the local market.
August 10, 2021

Interview: Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe

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.
July 21, 2020

PMI penetration rises across Europe

The number of people who are covered by private health insurance has largely risen across Europe in the past decade, according to a report by the OECD.
November 21, 2018

Senior Group looks to Baltics for expansion

France-based assisted living operator Senior Group is looking for a Baltics breakthrough after initial ambitious attempts stalled. We speak to CEO Nicolai Kobliakov as the company looks for investors. 
October 2, 2018

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 31, 2018

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 29, 2018
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