The UK government will grant an additional £2bn in funding to councils suffering from the country’s so-called social care crisis, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, announced to parliament today.
MPHHI, Filipino conglomerate MPIC’s hospital arm, is to launch a network of primary care centres. The group, whose net income surged 41% to P1.8bn (US$40m) in 2016, also wants to add a minimum of 10 hospitals to its network in the next five years, some of them from scratch – a departure from its usual buy-and-build growth strategy.
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.
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.
New ehealth apps mean that the primary care sector in emerging markets can be profitably consolidated for the first time. We look at the potential, talk to advisers, investors and operators look and at what will be delivered in the next six months.
Manasije Mishra is the CEO of Aetna India, and managing director of Indian Health Organisation (IHO). IHO runs a membership scheme which, for a modest fee, gives its half-a-million members access to everything from free consultations with a doctor to access to discounted outpatient and lab services, and telemedicine. We talk to him about his business model, his members, and his plans for expansion.
Unmanned primary care booths hosting a battery of tests and video links to medics at a nearby hospital are expected to be launched in the USA in July 2017. Enabling hospitals to massively expand their primary care channel to market, the company behind them reckons it can finance much of its growth from forward orders. We look at the new booths, the state of the art tests they will host and the underlying business model. Is this ganja smoke or reality?
The pan-European group, Capio, which runs hospitals, rehab, outpatient centres and care homes across four countries, has bought a primary care outfit in western Sweden, and Denmark’s second largest private hospital group. We spoke to Capio’s CEO Thomas Berglund.
Medics24, a small Finnish telehealth start-up is trying to find volunteers in the medical profession to help both patients and aid workers affected by the conflict in Syria. We talk to Jussi Korhonen, director at Medics24 about the benefits of digital health and the group’s Syria initiative.
Finland’s largest healthcare group is set to grow further – Terveystalo has "merged" with Diacor, which runs outpatient centres and a hospital in Helsinki, subject to regulatory approval. We spoke to CEO Yrjö Närhinen.
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