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Surgeries cancelled as for-profits drafted into coronavirus fight

Public elective surgeries are being cancelled across Europe, replaced in part by additional for-profit outsourcing, and governments are buying private hospital capacity for an expected flood of COVID-19 cases. In some countries, the stop on electives is across both public and private sectors. HBI investigates.
March 19, 2020

Bankers discuss Elsan sale prospects

We talk to senior banking figures about the approaching sale of French hospital group Elsan by CVC Capital Partners. One reckons a quiet "deal within the French establishment" is likely while another says the obvious strategic buyer should not be ruled out.
March 19, 2020

Bupa letting go of M&A and Integration Team members

HBI hears that global healthcare insurer and operator Bupa is letting go of a significant number of its dentistry-focussed M&A and integration team. The decision follows huge write-offs in 2019 in its UK dentistry business and Australian care homes.
March 19, 2020

Divestment and delayed repayments: How NMC might survive

Is NMC Health a sinking ship, or might it still be saved? HBI speaks to a UAE-based operator to find out how the under-fire group might keep its head above water, the difficult steps it must take to stay afloat, and who conceivably might step in to bail it out.
March 18, 2020

“Green Hospitals”: marketing spiel or strategic advantage?

As climate concern grows and the business world responds, energy-efficiency and sustainability have become strategic priorities for some private hospital operators, helping them win business, cut costs and arguably increase quality through "green hospitals", they claim. But internationally, incentives are a very mixed picture and those cutting emissions fastest are not where you might think.
March 18, 2020

Interview: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, claims to be the largest rehabilitation hospital in the USA, and works with groups from Bulgaria to UAE. HBI talk to Kelly Cox Watkins, Vice President, Market Development and Barry Fleischer, Executive Director, Advisory Services, about how to build a successful rehabilitation service, their groups' focus on patient ability, not adapting to disability and what that means in practice, and about its advisory work.
March 16, 2020

Each COVID-19 patient could mean one healthcare worker in isolation

In the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a third of all patients treated at one Wuhan hospital were healthcare workers that had treated positive patients. This week's infographic brings together stats from the worst affected areas to look at how must of the workforce might be lost to sickness.
March 12, 2020

COVID-19: Care sector confronts crisis, hospitals hit hard

In the second of our two-part deep dive into how COVID-19 is hitting healthcare markets across EMEA, we ask how hospitals are coping with spiralling staff sickness and a flood of patients, and whether the care and dialysis sectors can stay afloat given the risk the virus poses to their most vulnerable patients.
March 12, 2020
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