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Affidea launches new emergency/primary care concept

Affidea, the big Pan-European imaging services group, has launched the first of its ExpressCare clinics in Cork, Ireland's second city, followings its recent acquisition of FonixMed, a chain of occupational healthcare clinics in Hungary. The new drop-in centre offers minor emergency and primary care. So what lies behind the concept and how fast is it likely to spread. And what other primary care model are there in Europe? 
February 20, 2018

Indian hospital plans growth with help from UK government

UK government private equity arm CDC has invested US$21m in Asian Institute of Medical Sciences in a growth round of fundraising. The group will put the cash towards more than doubling its bed count. We talk to chairman and managing director Dr N.K Pandey.
February 15, 2018

Saudi group turning hotel into hospital in Egypt

GCC operator Elaj Group has reportedly paid US$10m for an unused luxury hospital in Egypt with a view to turning it into a multi-speciality hospital. We talk to a hospital design consultant who has done this in India and claims its 25% cheaper than a new build.
February 15, 2018

European shopping malls – the best place to build primary care clinics?

Sweden-based Minutkliniken is pioneering an American idea in Europe - shopping mall-based clinics, with appointment free drop-in consultations, diagnosis and prescriptions for minor ailments, along with health checkups. Healthcare Europa catches up with founder and Chief Medical Officer Ron Liebkind to find out more about his business strategy and plans to take the Minuteclinic model run by CVS in the USA to Europe.
February 13, 2018

French postal service expanding into medicalised homecare

French state-owned postal services giant La Poste has increasingly been moving into healthcare with the acquisition of France's fifth largest medicalised homecare provider and more recently a medical adherence app. We speak to a consultant who has covered French healthcare for decades, about the acquisition and the wider market.
February 12, 2018

Interview: Abhishek Sharma, CEO, Foundation Holdings

The man who helped turn Al Noor into a US$1bn company is building what he claims is the first major value healthcare platform in the UAE focused on serving the working class. Healthcare Nova chats to Abhishek Sharma, CEO of Foundation Holdings which has just launched Right Health with a view to IPO by 2021.
February 7, 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
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