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Doctolib plans Pan-Euro expansion

Slick B2C medical booking system Doctolib plans to expand out of France in 2016-17. In 18 months the start up has grown to over 100 staff, signed up 5,000 doctors and dentists and claims 2m patient visits a month. But how easy is to build a Pan-European platform?
October 21, 2015

Trouble at MC Groep Lelystad cardiology department

All four of the cardiologists at MC Groep’s Lelystad hospital are absent from work following an unpopular move to outsource cardiology work to rival chain Cardio Centra Nederlands. MC is the largest (well, actually the only) hospital privatisation group in the country.
October 16, 2015

Georgia Healthcare Group to IPO in three weeks

The Republic of Georgia’s dominant private healthcare operator plans to list on the London Stock Exchange in the first week of November 2015. Talking to Healthcare Nova, Georgia Healthcare Group CEO, Nikoloz Gamkrelidze also confirmed it expects to raise $100m in the primary listing and a secondary listing may follow. The money will be spent on 20-30 new ambulatory care clinics and renovating two hospitals in Tbilisi, as Georgia continues its journey towards universal health coverage before next year’s election.
October 16, 2015

Newly branded Avivo Group plans $300m expansion across five Gulf countries and 2017 London IPO

Pan-Gulf expansion could be the new business model for big private operators. We talk to Amitava Ghosal, the CEO of Avivo, the new name for Healthcare Mena, the operator backed by private equity house Al Masah Capital about his plans. He wants to expand out of the UAE and Kuwait and into Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia with a specialist outpatient clinic chain. Future steps include hospitals and SE Asia.
October 16, 2015

Private sector set to soar in Mexico

Private operators and their backers are racing to build large chains of outpatient clinics across Mexico. They hope that the right-wing government will allow new much longer term public-private partnerships. Meanwhile, the bodies which make up the Mexican NHS and the payor for services for the poor are in their worst financial situation in history. The minister of health has suggested that they may need to be merged to create a new universal health insurance plan.
October 9, 2015

Report: Healthcare Europa Property Survey 2015

There is intense investor interest in healthcare services property across Europe. Fund manager Marc Phillip Martins-Kuenzel, at German real estate investor Corpus Sireo claims that he had 400 approaches from prospective buyers in a single year. This reflects the global search for high yielding investments. But healthcare property also carries risks. Some sectors such as the French hospital market, where major deals have been done, look risky as the government cuts tariffs. And the sector remains opaque and poorly segmented. There are plenty of traps for the unwary. It is also far from clear how much new capacity will come on stream for investors over the next decade. Here we look at whether and when the boom will go bust. First, we run through the headlines and what has happened to prices. We then go on to look at supply and demand. Other articles profile the main US and European property investors and the main national markets.
October 2, 2015

Report: All listed healthcare service companies active in Emerging Markets

Here we present the first comprehensive list of all 57 quoted healthcare service companies which are active in Emerging Markets. The list includes companies headquartered in the Developed World, who have interests in Emerging Markets, such as Air Liquide, Fresenius or Ramsay Health Care, as well as quoted operators from the region, such as IHH, Apollo or Integrated Diagnostic Holdings. It covers everyone from Chilean hospitals to Egyptian lab operators and from NYSE quoted operators in China to big groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.
September 28, 2015
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