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FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Franchised training to bridge staff shortages

India suffers from a dearth of skilled technicians and nurses for dialysis, making recruitment difficult and expensive. To counter this, NephroPlus created an in-house training academy for dialysis technicians. Eligible candidates are offered a guaranteed job, but students are also qualified to work as a dialysis technician outside of NephroPlus. To meet high demand, NephroPlus has franchised its training academy with seven currently operational and a further eight to open in 2018. With the ability to meet increased demand, it has also developed an optimal staff mix ratio to eradicate wasted spending.
June 25, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Job placement app and college for poor women

In an effort to help women from low socio-economic backgrounds gain meaningful employment, Salus founded Instituto Salus, a nursing and healthcare college situated in a poor area. To match trained staff with medical services sold by its service providers, Salus has created its own job placement app to help increase efficiency in service delivery.
June 25, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Using spare capacity to offer low-cost imaging

Virtual network of 38 diagnostic centres in Switzerland, set to increase to 45-50 by June 2018. Corpus has built a platform providing flat rate imaging to HMOs and doctors for a discount of between 10% and 45%. This is achieved by acting as a preferred provider organisation for its partners, and through building volume with local exclusivity offerings for its diagnostic centres, directing patients from HMOs to these centres.
June 25, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Halving the cost of dialysis

How do you slash the cost of dialysis to a level affordable in country with a GDP per capita of $1,600 and where public dialysis is often of poor quality? NephroPlus, India's largest dialysis chain has managed to cut costs for private pay from $30-40 to $20-25 in the private sector and its outsourced offering to the public sector costs just $15. It has achieved this through a focus on process, effectively leveraging its scale for procurement, creating an in-house training centre and internal maintenance and quality teams.
June 25, 2018

Saudi PPP law could be delayed by ARAMCO IPO

Healthcare Nova hears that the much-discussed legal framework around private-public-partnerships in Saudi Arabia could be delayed until after state oil giant ARAMCO has gone public.
June 22, 2018

Payor-operator agreement heralds quiet revolution in Czech Republic

A quiet healthcare revolution is taking place in the Czech Republic. For the first time in almost two decades, providers and payors have reached an agreement on fees without the need for intervention by the Ministry of Health. Healthcare Europa speaks to an operator who says this is great news for private providers and a large step towards the creation of a more open market.
June 20, 2018

Pihlajalinna and Helsinki-based insurer plan nationwide cooperation

Finnish outsourcing specialist Pihlajalinna and Helsinki-based insurer Fennia have announced long-term plans to jointly provide “comprehensive health and well-being services”. Healthcare Europa speaks to Pihlajalinna and a local operator to find out more.
May 31, 2018

SOTE vote pushes back Mehilainen sale

The sale or IPO of Finnish healthcare group Mehiläinen might come after the country's parliament votes on SOTE in June. We talk to an advisor about why waiting makes sense and which of the two exit options its private equity owners will opt for.
May 14, 2018

Sphera spearheads expansion in Africa

Spanish operator Sphera Global Healthcare is expanding in Africa. Carlos Malet, co-founder and CFO, spoke to Healthcare Nova at HBI 2018 about the market for PPPs delivering efficient medical services in Africa.
April 25, 2018
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