A new report on Saudi Arabian healthcare from Colliers International outlines the private hospital sector's growth and increasing share of the national market from 2010 to 2016 with future growth forecasts.
KKR, the global private equity giant, has formed SinoCare Group, a hospital investment and management platform in China that will acquire, build-out and consolidate existing hospitals. Healthcare Nova speaks to a Hong-Kong based consultant to find out what people think on the ground.
Here we look at what strategies private medical insurers plan to follow over the next few years based on our attendance at UniGlobal’s 10th conference in Berlin. This complements our other article – International Healthcare Insurers – It’s a Hard Life – which gives a picture of where insurers really are today.
A fairly bleak picture of the future of healthcare in emerging markets was painted by Laurent Pochat-Cottilloux, Global Head of Healthcare Reinsurance at Axa Reinsurance, speaking at the UniGlobal Annual Health Insurance Conference.
The UK health secretary earlier this week told staff at online consultation and advice service Babylon that he supported the nationwide introduction of the company's remote consultation app GP at Hand. But how well has the company fared so far? We try to make sense of the figures.
It is ironic that conferences on best practice in healthcare are dominated by Americans – the people who have the world’s most dysfunctional healthcare system. Israel and Taiwan are much better bets. So how do they do it?
Healthcare Europa hears that a new minimum nurse-patient-ratio in the German hospital sector looks to be more onerous than first thought. We also discuss the sector's prospects more generally, looking at margins, market share, DRG trends, budget ceilings and how you can grow in such a highly consolidated sector.
Healthcare Nova hears that Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital's acquisition of Saudi Airlines' hospital in Jeddah is in the final stages of completion, and once done will be the country's first hospital PPP project. The group beat other bidders that included a European contingent, although a source says the final signature could come tomorrow or just as easily on year from now: "It's by royal decree."
Dental operators in the UK employing their dentists as freelancers are nervously keeping a watching brief on a potential review by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of the way they employ “staff” in the light of the decision which saw Uber drivers re-classified as employees.
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