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International players needed to help with ambitious Turkish PPP programme

The Turkish government has an ambitious PPP program to build 34 hospitals totalling almost 43,000 beds, and is outsourcing five major clinical areas to the private sector. Healthcare Europa talks to a consultant who is working with the government, which is looking to involve international rehab and lab players.

Opportunities in long-term care

Investment opportunities are being created by the growth of the long-term care market. Healthcare Europa speaks to Candesic partner Marc Kitten about what he would invest in - and where.

Forget wearables – implantables will change healthcare forever

Wearable technology is cutting edge today – but it’s nothing compared to the revolution that implantable technology will soon bring to the marketplace. That could see big medtech companies reconfiguring healthcare services and delivering many of them directly.

Forget wearables – implantables will change healthcare forever

Wearable technology is cutting edge today - but it's nothing compared to the revolution that implantable technology will soon bring to the marketplace. That could see big medtech companies reconfiguring healthcare services and delivering many of them directly.

Are you ready for GDPR?

The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.

MEDI System targets major Polish cities in its care home expansion

Poland’s largest elderly care home network group MEDI-System, owned by Orpea, is targeting major cities for expansion and branching into assisted living, the company tells Healthcare Europa. So what are the prospects for elderly care in the largest market in East Europe?

Interview: Charles Wang, Group CEO, Luye Medical Group

Formed as recently as 2015, Singapore-based Luye Medical Group has become one of the major contenders in health care services across China, Australia and SE Asia. It is part of the Luye Life Sciences Group which owns Luye Pharma Group, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China and separately listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Luye Medical Group acquired Healthe Care, the third largest Australian for-profit hospital operators in 2016. It has since expanded its business rapidly adding healthcare operations such as oncology (Singapore), inpatient, outpatient and community based health care services (Australia) and rehabilitation and maternity hospitals (China). The aim, says Wang, is mainly to provide a value-based healthcare experience to meet the needs of the middle class and patients with private insurance coverage across SE Asia, Australia and China. Here we talk to him about Luye Medical Group’s plans and how it views the Chinese market. Wang is a speaker at HBI 2018, the global health care service event in London from April 10 to 11.

Paracelsus closing hospital after it fails to find a buyer

The Karlsruhe-Durlach acute care clinic of German hospital and rehab group Paracelsus will close at the end of February after negotiations with buyers ground to a halt. We hear that the big hospital groups have been circling around the company's highly profitable rehab units, while it wants to get rid of its loss-making hospitals.

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