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How to build an international dentistry chain

Daniel Antón, the CFO of Dentix, Spain’s largest dental chain with 2016 sales of over €258m, following the 2016 collapse of former leader Vitaldent, speaks to us about its business model in Spain, Italy and Latin America. Unlike the newly reborn Vitaldent, Dentix plans to grab new, apparently high risk, markets outside Spain. How?
February 8, 2017

Vashishta wants to do it all over again

Sanjeev Vashishta, former CEO of SRL, the largest international diagnostic group in India, speaks to us about his plans to build a new lab network, Path Kind, backed by Mankind Pharma Group, which he claims is India’s fourth largest pharmaceutical group.
February 8, 2017

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka slashes discharge times as it tackles a cultural issue

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, a joint venture between its Indian namesake and the Bangladeshi STS Group, is Bangladesh’s first Joint Comission International accredited hospital. But Apollo’s chief of medical services Dr Prasad Muglikar tells Healthcare Nova it wasn’t costs or resources that were the main barrier to solving the problems of a lack of accountability and leadership on its wards – it was culture.
February 2, 2017

Interview: Dr Chai Patel, chairman and CEO, HC-One

Chai Patel, former Ugandan refugee, medical doctor, adviser to the Blair government and, after selling his stake in British-based nursing home group HC-One two years ago, serial entrepreneur is one of the more colourful characters in the normally staid world of British adult social care. With 25 years of experience in the market, he's also well-placed to comment on its current plight. In this wide-ranging interview, he gives Healthcare Europa his assessment of the industry's health and reveals details of HC-One's future strategy.
January 26, 2017

HC-One’s chairman warns of wave of UK care home closures

The chairman and CEO of the UK’s fourth largest care home group by sales, HC-One, has told Healthcare Europa that the latest funding arrangement for the industry is not enough and will lead to more closures. Dr Chai Patel, former owner of the Priory Group, believes “the government is coming up with new ideas” and also revealed HC-One is no longer considering sale and leaseback deals.
January 26, 2017

Aetna looks to emerging markets

Giant US healthcare insurer Aetna looks set to put its foot on the accelerator pedal in emerging markets. Dr Sneh Khemka, Senior Vice President of International Population Health Solutions at Aetna International, says Aetna has plans to rollout telehealth services in the coming year – and it seems that it has some large markets in its sights. Dr Sneh Khemka, Senior Vice President of International Population Health Solutions at Aetna International, would neither confirm nor deny that to be the case, but he was happy to talk about Aetna’s plans to rollout telehealth services in the coming year – and it seems that Aetna has some large markets in its sights.
January 25, 2017

Interview: Dr Susann Roth, Senior Social Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) lends more than US$16bn to projects across the continent each year, primarily in the infrastructure field. Last year, just US$0.34bn of that lending went to health - but that is set to change as the bank's interest in social sectors is growing. So what role does the bank believe the private sector should play in the region's health systems? How will they achieve universal health coverage (UHC)? And how good is existing regulation? These are the questions we put to Susann Roth, a German doctor and public health specialist who has been with the bank for more than seven years.
January 24, 2017
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