Thailand's second-largest listed hospital operator reported an 8.8% rise in net profit in 2017, to THB 3,944m (US$126), following a modest increase in patient numbers both home and abroad.
How do you build an international business delivering high-quality specialist care working with governments, public payors, regions and for-profit operators? UPMC, the big US academic medical centre, has done just this in four very different countries: Italy, Ireland, Kazakhstan and China. We talk to Dr Gridelli about the business model and challenges.
Singapore-based property developer and Chinese health care service operator Perennial Real Estate Holdings reported soaring profits in 2017. We look at its strategy of building hospitals and care homes, often close to high-speed rail hubs. Perennial is pouring some of its profits as a real estate developer into building health care services in China. Perennial remained […]
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?
Angola isn’t the first African country that springs into the minds of private equity groups looking to invest in healthcare. But according to Dan Schönfeld, the former head of finance at Vital Capital Fund who helped to set up and run Luanda Medica Centre (LMC), they shouldn't rule it out. He tells Healthcare Nova why.
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.
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.
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.
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.
India's second biggest lab group by revenue is planning further acquisitions in 2018 on the back of volume-led growth and rising profits, the company announced today as it posted its Q3 results.
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