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Interview: Franceso Longo, director, CERGAS

Professor Longo is a long-term analyst of the Italian NHS and the private sector. Here he predicts a boom for the private sector in all forms of post-acute care, explains why he expects private medical insurance to grow steeply and looks at how the private sector is acquiring not-for-profit operators.

Interview: Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle

How is Apollo expanding its outpatient presence and building businesses in diabetes, maternity and diagnostics? We talk to Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL) about his chain of 90 clinics and about AHLL’s acquisition of Nova Speciality Hospitals, a chain of ten ambulatory surgery clinics. How will AHLL expand in India, the Middle East and Africa?

Abraaj to raise $1bn for innovative Global Health Fund

Private equity house Abraaj is raising at least $1bn for an innovative new fund to build new healthcare services, sometimes from scratch, in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent, reliable sources told Healthcare Nova.

Regina Maria teaser out

A teaser for Regina Maria, the second largest hospital/outpatient chain in Romania went out just before the start of 2015. It is being sold by private equity house Advent International which is disengaging from Eastern Europe.

Merger creates new Finnish giant

Finnish dentistry-to-elderly care player Mediverkko and acute care-to-elderly care group Mehilainen are to merge to create a group with sales of €400m in 2014. We talk to the new CEO Mediverkko’s Janne Jarvenpaa.

Advent to sell Regina Maria and American Heart of Poland

Advent International will sell its Romanian and Polish healthcare service businesses in the next year, say sources. Both investments were made after Advent raised its last CEE fund in 2008 which is now being liquidated.

Norway starts to open up to private sector

The new centre right Norwegian government has announced plans for a voucher system and is encouraging the four health care regions and the municipalities who handle elderly care to further utilize the private sector.

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