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Interview: Emmett Moriarty, Consultant

The amount Russians spend privately on healthcare services has doubled in five years and EBITDA margins can reach 40-50% for operators, yet the market remains deeply fragmented with many fairly unsophisticated operators and no national chains. Emmett, a former VP at Medsi, the biggest Russian healthcare group, has a decade’s experience of investing in healthcare services in Russia and Eastern Europe and now works both for investors and for operators. The former sector leader for health at IFC, the commercial bank arm of the World Bank (and world’s largest investor in emerging markets healthcare), Emmett was previously head of KPMG’s Healthcare Performance Improvement division.

Joseph Priel launches first major private hospital in Hungary

Joseph Priel, one of the founders of imaging service provider Euromedic, and business partner Igor Yankovsky, are behind a new 25,000 square metre facility in central Budapest, which will be the first substantial private hospital in Hungary. We talk to Priel about where he is going to get the patients to fill such a big hospital in a country with no private medical insurance.

Interview: Ahmed Badreldin, Partner, The Abraaj Group

No other private equity house can match Abraaj’s experience of investing in healthcare services in the developing world. A lead investor in Turkish hospital group Acibadem, which was then sold to IHH, the international hospital chain, Abraaj has rolled out a lab buy and build in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East, has recently started a similar play building a Pan-North African chain of hospitals and has also invested in half a dozen hospital and outpatient clinics across sub-Saharan Africa. Ahmed will be speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015 on April 28 in London.

MD Medical continues growth

Despite big share price falls in 2013, Russian hospital group MD Medical continues to expand its obs and gynae chain, which serves the wealthiest 20% of the population across the country.

Report: Dentistry in Europe

Web-empowered, patient choice, the retreat of state payors, internationalization - what is happening in dentistry will happen in other healthcare service sectors soon. So it is a sector that is worth watching closely. In this, the first part of a 2 part report, we look at how dentistry markets in Europe are changing, look at business models and track consolidation, naming the major players country-by-country. How is the market set to change?

Alvimedica buys into Croatian hospital

Turkish medtech group and stent manufacturer Alvimedica appears to have purchased a large empty private hospital in Croatia owned by entrepreneur Marin Bosotina who runs reagent distributor and lab group MC Analyza. Alvimedica plans to develop a centre of excellence in cardiology for the region.

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