As HBI predicted in November, some of the world's largest private equity firms are lining up bids for Columbia Pacific Management's pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia.
Bahrain is due to follow its richer neighbour, the UAE, by implementing a mandatory insurance programme this year. Yet its far lower GDP and population could make it difficult for large hospitals to flourish in the region. HBI speaks to two GCC experts about how legislation will change the healthcare landscape.
Despite a generally weak hospital IPO market in Europe, Italy's largest hospital operator by revenue, Gruppo San Donato, looks set to list - perhaps prompted by the strong start the country's stock market has made to 2019.
Competition authorities are looking at an acquisition involving two of Ukraine's largest hospital players, a deal which a source tells us is in anticipation of the upcoming reforms that will put private and public hospitals on a level footing.
Europe's largest telemedicine provider has become the first to enter the German market by taking a JV with the country's fourth-largest hospital group.
Mediclinic-owned Swiss hospital group Hirslanden has partnered with the procurement arm of German counterpart Sana Kliniken to collaborate on procurement. The group could save a bucket-load considering price differentials between the two countries.
UK hospital group Spire Healthcare has issued its second profit warning in less than six months, prompting a sell-off that saw its share price fall 13%.
Hospital operators in India should find it easier to access land and obtain funding, after new guidelines for private investors were set out as part of the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme.
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