Rushed legislation passed in Romania yesterday (Wednesday, December 4) allows for-profit hospitals and clinics to provide emergency medical treatment, and treat patients with chronic diseases, at public expense.
A new report lays bare the systematic failings which allowed a rogue surgeon to perform hundreds of unnecessary surgeries in the UK. HBI is told that getting consultant-level activity data is still problematic, while Schoen Clinic UK tells HBI why more private doctors should be directly employed.
Poor scheduling, especially in DRG funded models, can be financially devastating if it leads to closed facilities and wasted patient appointments. What solutions are available to the market? HBI speaks to the founder of one automated scheduling solution, Planerio, about keeping MRIs running through M&A, complying with the law and Germany's workforce shortage.
French hospital group Elsan has acquired its third hospital in Morocco. Head of international development Emile Dinet talks HBI through its strategy in Africa's fifth-largest economy, which only recently allowed institutional investment into its health sector.
IFC-backed holding company Hospital Holding Limited (HHI) is close to acquiring AAR Healthcare after it received approval from the Kenyan competition authority, HBI can exclusively reveal.
The dire state of the German hospital sector is likely to see 50 bankruptcies in 2020, of which half could be privatised. German banks are getting jittery about the billions of euros they have lent to now loss-making hospitals.
Saudi Arabia's largest hospital operator Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group has reportedly appointed two local banks to spearhead a February IPO. A Saudi healthcare consultant says the success of state oil company ARAMCO's IPO is prompting others to list.
The Evercare Health Fund, formerly managed by now-defunct PE firm Abraaj, has made its first acquisition since TPG took over the fund last year, acquiring a private hospital group in Bangladesh for $120m. At the same time, UK development bank and Evercare investor CDC Group has partially sold a stake in an Indian hospital group, demonstrating you can make money while serving the low-end segment.
A UK government body which helps to finance British business exports, United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF), is funnelling £354m into healthcare projects in Ghana and Zambia.
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