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NMC Healthcare strategy to attract tourists and talent

The UAE’s largest private healthcare group, London-listed NMC Healthcare, is developing a series of ambulatory centres for minimally invasive surgery. These are part of NMC’s strategy to attract both medical tourists and top medical talent to the region. We speak to CEO and founder Dr Binay Shetty to find out more.

French groups create new healthcare insurance giant

A new player in the French complementary health insurer market with nearly a fifth of the market and covering 11m customers is to be created by the merger of two mutual insurers. The move heralds the creation of a chain of 348 outpatient health centres. Healthcare Europa talks to the directeur-generale of one of the merging groups.

Curagita finally gets a hospital

In the arcane world of German healthcare services, buying a tiny 11 bed hospital can be the source of great joy. With a hospital you can expand freely in the German outpatient sector. Without one you are cribbed and confined. No wonder Deutschen Radiologienetz (DR), an ambitious imaging company that wants to build a national network, is celebrating.

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?

Abraaj to raise $1bn for innovative Global Health Fund

Private equity house Abraaj is raising at least $1bn for an innovative new fund to build new healthcare services, sometimes from scratch, in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent, reliable sources told Healthcare Nova.

Regina Maria teaser out

A teaser for Regina Maria, the second largest hospital/outpatient chain in Romania went out just before the start of 2015. It is being sold by private equity house Advent International which is disengaging from Eastern Europe.

Merger creates new Finnish giant

Finnish dentistry-to-elderly care player Mediverkko and acute care-to-elderly care group Mehilainen are to merge to create a group with sales of €400m in 2014. We talk to the new CEO Mediverkko’s Janne Jarvenpaa.

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