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IVF/lab group sells stake to Oaktree; buys in Italy, Spain and Switzerland

NL Holding has sold a 30% stake to Oaktree Capital, while simultaneously acquiring fertility providers and specialised diagnostic laboratories in Switzerland, Italy and Spain. This coincides with Oaktree offloading its pan-European dentistry platform. We take a more detailed look at what NL has bought. 

Ribera Salud appoints ex-UK healthcare minister Alan Milburn

Ribera Salud, the Spanish hospital management company which is majority owned by US giant Centene Corporation has appointed Alan Milburn, a former Labour Minister of Health to its board. What does this tell us about its plans for the UK? 

Are you ready for GDPR?

The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.

Organic growth powers Medicover

Strong organic growth at 14.5% was at the core of a robust set of results for German, East-European and Indian outpatient, hospital and lab group Medicover which announced its maiden results post its summer 2017 IPO.

Interview: Abhishek Sharma, CEO, Foundation Holdings

The man who helped turn Al Noor into a US$1bn company is building what he claims is the first major value healthcare platform in the UAE focused on serving the working class. Healthcare Nova chats to Abhishek Sharma, CEO of Foundation Holdings which has just launched Right Health with a view to IPO by 2021.

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Interview: Charles Wang, Group CEO, Luye Medical Group

Formed as recently as 2015, Singapore-based Luye Medical Group has become one of the major contenders in health care services across China, Australia and SE Asia. It is part of the Luye Life Sciences Group which owns Luye Pharma Group, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China and separately listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Luye Medical Group acquired Healthe Care, the third largest Australian for-profit hospital operators in 2016. It has since expanded its business rapidly adding healthcare operations such as oncology (Singapore), inpatient, outpatient and community based health care services (Australia) and rehabilitation and maternity hospitals (China). The aim, says Wang, is mainly to provide a value-based healthcare experience to meet the needs of the middle class and patients with private insurance coverage across SE Asia, Australia and China. Here we talk to him about Luye Medical Group’s plans and how it views the Chinese market. Wang is a speaker at HBI 2018, the global health care service event in London from April 10 to 11.

Unilabs starts 2018 with second Peruvian lab acquisition

Pan-European laboratory giant Unilabs is acquiring Peruvian pathology lab Arias Stella for an undisclosed amount. This is the second lab acquisition the group has made in Peru, after it bought Blufstein, a network of 31 collection centres and four hospitals, in August 2017. A local source tells Healthcare Europa that the deal is likely to be […]

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