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Interview: William Stoddart, CEO, Werlabs

Werlabs is a Swedish start-up bringing lab tests to the general public. The group is growing fast from a small base, and is now expanding beyond the Nordics. Its CEO, William Stoddart, believes it can save the health system money and consumers will buy it. Healthcare Europa asks him how.

B2C lab tests set to soar in Europe

Direct-to-consumer lab groups are popping up right across Europe. Most are small and offer a limited range of tests, but there’s less to stop labs going straight to the consumer than you might have thought.

Eurofins enters the Italian clinical testing market

Euronext-listed pan-European testing firm Eurofins is in the process of buying Genoma, a specialty genetics testing laboratory network in Italy – just three weeks after the acquisition of GATC, a genomics specialist in Germany.

SE Asian hospitals see the future clearly

A session at Healthcare Asia on market trends and opportunities in SE Asia brought together three of the largest hospital groups in SE Asia – Siloam in Indonesia, Metro Pacific in The Philippines and KPJ in Malaysia. So how do they see the world and what strategies are they adopting?

Unilabs buys genetics lab network

Pan-European laboratory chain Unilabs has bought CGC Genetics, a medical genetics testing company in Portugal. Philipp Manser, CFO at Unilabs, tells Healthcare Europa that the group wants to position itself as a reference medical genetics provider.

FREE BLOG What do you do when medical professionals go off the tracks?

Every year, some 12,000 medical and care professionals are subject to serious investigation by the three largest professional bodies in the UK alone. So how do you deal with the doctor or nurse who starts abusing colleagues, who has sex with a patient, who makes mistakes or lies on their CV? We talk to Jonathan Coe, who runs The Clinic for Boundaries Studies, which offers an intensive course to get perpetrators to open their eyes, take responsibility and change their behaviour.

Apollo reaches $1bn revenue despite demonetisation, stent caps and a “VIP admission”

Apollo, India’s second largest healthcare services chain, has surpassed $1bn revenue for the financial year ending March 31 - but its results were hit by demonetisation, a cylone, stent caps, and what it called a "VIP admission". Healthcare Nova spoke to Ms Suneeta Reddy, managing director of Apollo Hospitals, during the company's investor teleconference on May 31.

Medicover ready to splash the IPO cash on acquisitions

Medicover, the occupational healthcare chain (Poland/Romania) and lab group (Germany and Eastern Europe) is ready to splash its IPO cash - around SEK 2bn (€210m) - on new acquisitions when it goes public this summer, according to its CEO.

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