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Post-COVID care providers see effect of GCC diabetes crisis

A GCC-based post-acute and long-term care provider tells HBI about the plethora of rehabilitation needs his clinic is seeing amongst COVID-19 survivors. The region has a high rate of type 2 diabetes, the key pre-existing condition that predisposes people to a bad COVID-19 infection.

COVID impact less severe than expected for cosmetic group

HBI talks to Tony Veverka, CEO of Transform Hospital Group, about the groups experience of reopening its core cosmetic business after supporting the NHS though COVID since the start of April, the affect on its revenue, and his hope a new understanding might be reached with the NHS.

German and Dutch dentists struggle to make up COVID losses

Dentists in Germany and the Netherlands are playing post-COVID closure catchup as businesses have reopened after the height of the pandemic. One DACH-based operator tells us it may be harder to make up lost ground in these countries than elsewhere.

Spanish for-profits demand COVID compensation

For-profit hospitals and clinics in Spain are facing bankruptcy and closure unless urgent payment is made for work done and financial difficulties faced during the coronavirus pandemic over the last three months, according to The Spanish Private Health Alliance (ASPE), which represents more than 80% of private hospitals in the country. HBI speaks to a Spanish consultant to find out more.

Elderly care post-Covid: HBI Big Picture Seminar

How has Covid affected the elderly care sector across EMEA? To find out, HBI-365, the new global digital platform, brought together a panel of three: Fredrik Gren, CEO and president, Ambea, a sophisticated and large Pan-Scandinavian care group, Alexei Sidnev, CEO, Senior Group, the largest player in a big emerging market, Russia and Pierre-Emanuel Bercegeay, CEO, Ouihelp, a VC-backed, digital-savvy domiciliary homecare start-up in France. The seminar was followed by the first meeting of our HBI-365 elderly community with a useful roundtable on workforce.

COVID takes shine of Apollo’s Q4 results

The Q4 results of India's largest hospital group by revenue, Apollo Hospitals, show the effect of a falling footfall, deferred electives and the loss of medical tourism will make for a troubling start to FY21.

COVID crisis will present rollup opportunities in Greece

Greece has never been the most buoyant of markets for healthcare services operators, with limited PMI penetration and problems in the Greek economy limiting out-of-pocket spending. We speak to a Greece-based consultant to find out more about how COVID is affecting this landscape.

Health care values look high

Analyst forecasts suggest that healthcare sector valuations have been largely unaffected by the crisis, with EMEA hospitals and medtech stocks now being more expensive than before the Covid outbreak, both on an EBITDA and PE multiples basis.

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