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HCA launches one number, ambulance backed acute admission service

Hospital group HCA UK has launched a 24/7 concierge and ambulance service to ease acute admissions to its four London hospitals. It says it has seen over 100% revenue growth in the last year as a result. Is it trying to provide an alternative to the crowded NHS A&E departments across the country? HBI investigates.   
January 27, 2023

Interview: Barry Mulholland, MBI Healthcare Technologies

Barry Mulholland is founding partner at MBI Healthcare Technologies, a UK digital health company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix data inaccuracies in hospital administration systems. He tells us how he believes AI platforms can help solve the elective care crisis.
January 26, 2023

German reforms “could kill PE outpatient investment”

German health minister Karl Lauterbach offered a politicised Christmas present in December with an announcement he would stop “locust investors” buying up outpatient medical practices. A German VC source tells HBI this could “kill” private equity investment in German healthcare, and push innovation elsewhere.
January 19, 2023

Spanish group rubbishes rumours of sale

Multiple sources tell HBI Spanish for-profit hospital group Grupo Recoletas is up for sale, and rival HM Hospitales could follow if it hasn't already. Recoletas outright denies there is any process.
January 13, 2023

UK warns off Turkey after deaths

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has issued a travel warning following the deaths of 22 British nationals who sought medical treatment in Turkey. The country has recently seen a tsunami of patients taking the trip due to a failing NHS in England and the promise of more affordable cosmetic surgeries. HBI speaks to three Turkey-based analysts to understand whether the safeguarding concerns are warranted and what impact the warnings could have on the medical tourism industry.
January 6, 2023

Morocco’s largest hospital group’s share price tanks after successful IPO

Africa-focused private equity firm Mediterrania Capital Partners has made a successful exit from Akdital, Morocco's largest for-profit hospital group, with the biggest IPO on the Casablanca Stock Exchange since 2008. But despite being heavily over-subscribed, the share price has since fallen by 9%.
January 6, 2023

Softened Hungarian reform still risks workforce exodus

The Hungarian government has removed from its proposed new health care law the requirement that private doctors would need to work at least 20 hours a month in the public sector. However, the rest of the controversial reform remains unaltered.
January 6, 2023

Amanat to merge Sukoon and CMRC

Dubai-based listed health care and education investment firm Amanat Holdings is merging two of its post acute care providers in the GCC region, Sukoon and Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center (CMRC), in the latest move in its plan to build the region's largest post-acute care platform.
December 21, 2022
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