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Risebrow to help companies sell to the NHS

Hugh Risebrow, the former UK managing director of lab group synlab UK and former commercial director at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust has become CEO of UK consultancy Latchmore Associates. He hopes to help healthcare service companies set up base in the UK and to sell their services to the NHS.
September 11, 2015

Pihlajalinna launches more JVs after IPO

Pihlajalinna, the Finnish healthcare and social services outfit, which recently IPOed with a market capitalisation of €255m, has struck a third joint venture with Finnish municipalities to outsource health and social services. Finland is likely to open up even more to the private sector under the current government.
September 11, 2015

Opportunities in Croatia

Where are the opportunities for private healthcare in Croatia? We profile the sector and talk to Jasna Omeragic Resic, vice president of strategy and business development, at the largest imaging service operator in Central and Eastern Europe, affidea.
August 4, 2015

Vietnamese hospital vies to become regional hub

One of the largest private hospital operators in Vietnam plans to open an international hub and spoke model by building 15 primary care outpatient clinics in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
July 10, 2015

Interview: Stefan Larsson, Senior Partner, BCG

Worldwide, Stefan Larsson foresees a strong move in healthcare away from fee for service, in which quality is not measured and rewarded, to a system which measures and rewards outcomes. He thinks that model will apply across acute, elderly and chronic care. But how real is the shift? Here we talk to Larsson about examples of operators who have seen significant growth and about how payors are about to shift away from DRGs. He is a Co-founder of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a not-for-profit devoted to the development of global standards for measurement of health outcomes that matter to patients.
July 8, 2015

Alzira model looks doomed

The Alzira model looks doomed as Valencia cracks down on the private concessions which run healthcare for over 1m people. The newly elected left wing coalition government is hostile to the model and is carrying out rigorous audits which are likely to destroy profits. Two large insurers have already sold their stakes to Ribera Salud, which is 50% owned by US operator Centene. But there are still international opportunities for Alzira.
July 8, 2015

Interview: Jaime Cervantes Covarrubias, CEO, Grupo VitalMex, Mexico

Persuading public sector hospitals to outsource the management of surgery sounds unlikely to lead to business success. After all, surgeons are powerful and surgery is a jealously guarded core competency. You might imagine that few public sector hospitals would willingly outsource. Yet Vitalmex has grown sales to $300m with this very business model and is now active in Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Thailand and Turkey could be next.
May 26, 2015

Report: Huge investor interest at Healthcare Europa 2015

Click here to see all the presentations from Healthcare Europa 2015 How is the private healthcare services sector in Europe and beyond changing? Healthcare Europa 2015 provided a snapshot of the sector. We report. The fifth Healthcare Europa conference saw delegate numbers double to 430 with streams for acute, dentistry, elderly care and diagnostics in […]
May 21, 2015
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