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Interview: Marijan Bilic, Balkans director at Affidea

Netherlands-based pan-European diagnostics imaging group Affidea, which operates 220 diagnostics centres in 16 European countries, has just entered the Serbian market by opening a €4m neurology hospital in Belgrade. Affidea’s Balkans director Marijan Bilic explains why.

US group plans London hospital

Another prestigious US not-for-profit hospital group plans to open in London. That's on top of Cleveland Clinic's opening in Grosvenor Square and German group Schoen, which will open its hospital in 2017. So who is it and how could it enter?

Affidea to launch diagnostics imaging network in Serbia

Pan-European diagnostics imaging provider Affidea has opened a €4m hospital in Belgrade last December and is planning to launch more facilities in other major cities in the next two years. We take a closer look at the company’s plans.

The Philippines: a national survey

The Philippines has tremendous potential. It has one of the world’s fastest growing economies, and yet it doesn’t have many large healthcare service providers and it lacks a medical infrastructure sufficient to cope with all its residents’ needs. Healthcare Nova looks at the current market there, government policy, and how the private sector is changing.

Mixed investor sentiment in Turkey before referendum

With political uncertainty and concerns over the value of the Lira, investors in Turkey are facing a tricky decision. Should they stay or should they go? Healthcare Nova catches up with Turkish doctor Omer Karahan, a partner at healthcare consultancy Value Health.

Who will win and who will lose in the GCC?

Who will win and who will lose in the GCC? To see what near unbridled private healthcare looks like nothing beats a trip to the GCC. Revenue is ballooning as mandatory PMI comes in for ex-pats. Meanwhile Abu Dhabi, Dubai and even Saudi Arabia are extremely willing to turn to the private sector for provision, functional outsourcing and even privatisation.

Sales grow at Spire, but problems hurt margins

The CFO of the UK's second largest hospital group says the group's margins were negatively affected adversely by two problems last year - but it still saw rapid growth for other reasons.

Interview: Päivi Metsäniemi, Chief Physician and Juha Tuominen, CMO, Terveystalo

Terveystalo, Finland’s largest private healthcare provider, has developed a monitoring and data analytics package to better identify patients at risk of or suffering from type 2 diabetes. The group says it could help the country save €2bn a year and that it is already making a profit from Etydi. We speak to Päivi Metsäniemi, Chief Physician, and Juha Tuominen, CMO, at Terveystalo, who have applied to the HBI 2017 awards in the Best Use of Digital Health category.

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