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UK homecare? No thanks!

Long-term NHS contracts make much of the UK homecare sector unattractive. Duke Street is trying to sell Baywater Healthcare, its COPD and sleep apnea business, and Bupa has been running the slide rule over its Bupa Home Healthcare arm.
September 25, 2015

Interview: Helmut Schuehsler, Chairman & CEO, TVM Capital Healthcare Partners

In 25 years TVM Capital, the business where Schuehsler is at the helm, has invested over $1.5bn in life sciences. Yet, five years ago, he took the remarkable personal decision to move from Munich to Dubai and to build a completely new arm to invest in healthcare services in Emerging Markets. Since then, Dubai-based TVM Capital Healthcare Partners and co-investors have invested some $150m in five investments, ranging from Egypt to India. He is now raising a third fund of $300m for another dozen investments.
September 21, 2015

French telehealth group SeniorAdom to partner with large elderly care players

Having product-launched in January 2015, French telehealth group SeniorAdom just raised a new financing round from several investors. OMNES Capital, who led the financing round, says SeniorAdom will partner with key elderly care players, such as large nursing home groups, or health insurance companies.
September 18, 2015

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

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

Brazil’s largest homecare group Dal Ben to increase volumes with HMOs

Dal Ben, which claims to be Brazil’s largest homecare company, aims to diversify its client base through partnerships with Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs), as well as expanding into nursing homes and acute hospitals. We speak to Marcelo Fonseca, board member of Dal Ben, about the future of homecare in Brazil.
June 16, 2015
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