A senior official at pan-Asian hospital group IHH has said that it will likely scrap the branding of troubled hospital company Fortis once litigation is over.
The UK's health minister Matt Hancock has revealed in an interview that upcoming integrated care project contracts (ICPs) will not be awarded to private care providers.
Family-owned Italian hospital and nursing home operator Garofalo's listing on the Milan Stock exchange fetched a smaller price than market watchers may have expected. What does its multiple mean for the trio of Italian groups waiting in the wings to IPO?
Spanish hospital group Ribera Salud is going back to its Spanish PPP roots with the acquisition of a hospital (through its owner Centene) in Madrid, despite recently looking to Eastern Europe and LatAm for profits after its core, Alzira model ran into difficulty in Valencia.
The UK's biggest healthcare outsourcer has struck a partnership with a hospital trust in the southwest of the country to take on all non-emergency orthopaedic procedures. It is the first example of a promising model for private providers which could soon become more widespread.
We talk to the Chairman of the Falck Vladivostok Hospital who says the international emergency care provider and co-investors are looking to sell and that there’s a bargain to be had for the willing buyer. Whilst an ambitious plan to build a Pan-Russian chain of budget hospitals was abandoned by the current investors, that plan could still offer an entree to the fast-growing Russian market.
Brazil's fate has been sealed for the next four years, though president-elect Bolsonaro has yet to appoint a health minister. In anticipation of who might fill the role, we ask Wilson Olivieri, former CFO of Brazilian insurer Qualicorp, what the government could do for private healthcare.
The American press is reporting that US-based private equity giant KKR is ‘nearing a deal’ to buy addiction treatment specialists Acadia Healthcare. The purchase would bring one of America's largest PE giants into the UK healthcare industry for the first time. How are KKR's international healthcare investments fairing?
Two major for-profit Dutch hospitals went bankrupt last month after insurance companies refused to shoulder their economic woes. Both hospitals were part of MC Groep - a Dutch group which privatises failing public hospitals. What does this mean to the wider Dutch market? We speak to a Dutch healthcare expert to find out more.
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