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Who will win and who will lose in the GCC?

Who will win and who will lose in the GCC? To see what near unbridled private healthcare looks like nothing beats a trip to the GCC. Revenue is ballooning as mandatory PMI comes in for ex-pats. Meanwhile Abu Dhabi, Dubai and even Saudi Arabia are extremely willing to turn to the private sector for provision, functional outsourcing and even privatisation.
March 2, 2017

Sales grow at Spire, but problems hurt margins

The CFO of the UK's second largest hospital group says the group's margins were negatively affected adversely by two problems last year - but it still saw rapid growth for other reasons.
March 2, 2017

Zambia is open for business

The southern African country of Zambia is looking to the private sector to boost its healthcare system and help it move towards universal health coverage. In an interview in London, Dr Kennedy Malama, director at the Ministry of Health, named five key areas it’s looking for help and what Zambia has to offer.
February 28, 2017

Brazil’s new post-acute business model attracting foreign interest

The post-acute market presents a real opportunity in Brazil, after the ban against foreign investment in hospitals was lifted in 2015. This is according to Martin Benitez, an independent consultant with extensive M&A experience in the Brazilian healthcare market who is involved in just such a transaction. He speaks to Healthcare Nova about his latest project, and the market in general.
February 27, 2017

Interview: Jill Watts, CEO BMI Healthcare

Jill Watts has worked in healthcare for almost 40 years, and since she was appointed group CEO of BMI Healthcare in November 2014, she's been widely credited with turning the business around. A former CEO of Ramsay UK, she has strong views about the market, the state of the NHS, and the role of the private sector. Here's what she had to say when Healthcare Europa caught up with her in London.
February 26, 2017

FREE BLOG HR: an international market and an international headache

The ability to staff a healthcare provider is perhaps the prime determinant of its success. But recruiting, retaining and training doctors, nurses and support staff has never been harder. Nurses, in particular, are slipping out of health systems like water through a sieve. And their desperate employers are resorting to desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to staff their wards.
February 24, 2017

Finland prospects brighten further

Specialist care could be provided under a voucher scheme in Finland and freedom of choice in health and social care will be even more extensive than previously hoped, say quoted care and outpatient group Pihlajalinna.
February 24, 2017

Montenegro government looks to privatise healthcare centre

The Montenegro government is looking to privatise healthcare centre Simo Milosevic, a boutique spa and rehabilitation facility in in the municipality of Herceg Novi. The media in Montenegro is reporting that investors from UAE, China, Norway and Israel are interested in the planned sale of the centre, which is 56% state owned, and also known as Institute Igalo.
February 23, 2017

Interview: Fredrik Gren, CEO, and Daniel Warnholtz, CFO, Ambea

Swedish disabled and elderly care services provider Ambea, the second largest in the country with 2015 revenue of SEK4.4bn (approximately €470m), wants to reinforce its presence in the disabled care segment, increase residential care and have a contract model less reliant on outsourcing. Healthcare Europa asks CEO Fredrik Gren and CFO Daniel Warnholtz why - and whether an IPO is on the cards.
February 22, 2017
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