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Wound care clinics – the potential in emerging markets

The potential for wound care clinics – especially in emerging markets – is huge. Often costing little to set up, the opportunity to cut costs, cut average length of stay, and operate a quick turnaround (ideally from private payors) should be appealing. So why aren’t we seeing more of them? Healthcare Nova speaks to Rafael Mazuz, MD of OliveSeraph which advises providers how to make such clinics work.
September 22, 2016

The future of healthcare in Nigeria: PPPs and the NHIS?

Healthcare investors generally take a fancy to Nigeria. Africa’s most populous country has a growing middle class and will one day finally put some distance between itself and South Africa as its largest economy. The petrodollars already flow freely into healthcare. But no one has bothered to keep them in the country: not the existing fragmented private sector, nor the government, which has other priorities – President Buhari has been treated in London, after all! So, surely, all that’s left to do is fly in, start a JV with a local partner, consolidate and cut off the medical tourism leak at source?
September 1, 2016

Medlife buys Bucharest operator

Romania’s largest private healthcare provider Medlife has just completed yet another acquisition. The group bought a 90% stake in Panduri Medical Centre, which runs two labs and two clinics in Bucharest. We speak to one consultant about its strategy.
August 24, 2016

What impact will clarity on quality outcomes have on healthcare services?

We are about to find out the answer to that question. From April 2017, the UK’s Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) will go live with a mammoth website representing nearly 2 million datapoints covering the output of 14,000 consultant doctors with private practice at over 500 hospitals. Over 200 procedures will be measured in 11 ways. What does all this mean?
August 19, 2016

Medicover plans IPO to raise SEK2bn for expansion

Medicover, the Pan-East European corporate healthcare provider and lab group, plans to IPO to expand internationally, raising SEK2bn for expansion of its core business into Emerging Markets.
August 19, 2016

Auna’s frenetic race to build national chain in Peru

Private equity-backed Auna has gone from oncological payor-provider to Peru's third largest private healthcare chain in just three years. We speak to financial analyst Fernando Adrián Mendoza at Auna to get a grasp of Peru's prompt healthcare transformation. With global operators like Bupa lurking within Latin America, it's only a matter of time before M&A heats up in this country of 31m.
July 29, 2016

Bourke takes the reins at Bupa

The diversified healthcare giant Bupa has promoted acting CEO and former CFO, Evelyn Bourke, to CEO. The appointment was widely expected, and will bring continuity to a business that undertook a £1.8bn M&A drive under former CEO, Stuart Fletcher, but saw profits suffer.
July 28, 2016

TPG Growth buys Indian maternity chain Rhea Healthcare for $33m

TPG’s investment platform TPG Growth has bought a majority stake in Bangalore-based maternity chain Rhea Healthcare for $33m (Rs 220 crore), which wants to expand across India. The mother-and-child care sector is one of many growing outpatient specialties in the country.
July 27, 2016

China Resources to buy GenesisCare

Macquarie-backed, state-owned conglomerate China Resources (CR) is waiting for Australian regulatory approval to buy private equity house KKR's 45% stake in oncology group GenesisCare. CR wants to continue expanding Genesis in Western Europe and to tap the Chinese market with new hospital management contracts. The deal values the company at US$1.3bn.
July 26, 2016

Georgia to row back on UHC programme

Means testing may be reintroduced to Georgia, replacing its three-year-old universal health coverage system, as the government seeks efficiencies. The middle-income country now spends over 7% of GDP on health according to the World Bank. Boosts to primary care are also driving large operators like Georgia Healthcare Group (GHG) into the ambulatory market.
July 15, 2016
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