Pan-European dental group Curaeos has reportedly struck a deal with some of its creditors in a move that will lighten the company's debt while transferring a minority stake.
Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.
Spain's biggest dental chain, Dentix, has won a temporary reprieve from its creditors in Italy, but Dentix Italia must now come up with a recovery plan or find a buyer within the next three months.
NMC acting CEO Michael Davis speaks publicly for the first time about the future of under-fire NMC Health. In this exclusive interview, we ask about a possible sale of all or part of the business, and whether and how NMC might recover from its present position.
NMC Health's administrators are making it clear that a wholesale selloff of the UAE's largest healthcare company is not viable. Could any of MENA's largest hospital operators - Mediclinic, VPS, and Aster DM - take over the hospital business? And who will be fighting for the rest? HBI speaks to an investor who knows NMC well to find out more.
We talk to the CEO of pan-European industrial and health gases and homecare operator Sapio Group. It aims to grow healthcare from 50% now, to 65% of its revenue by 2022, and has been buying homecare companies across the continent to that end.
European dental markets are reopening for business as R numbers drop below 1 across the continent. HBI reviews what the current position is in these key markets and talks to operators in these markets to assess demand.
West Europe's for-profit hospital market is set to shrink by at least 10% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research done for the HBI Intelligence Centre.
Italy's COVID-19 experience will place a huge new emphasis on reducing inpatient hospital stays, says Bruno Biagi, VP of the country's third-largest private hospital operator GVM Care & Research. He adds that regions will provide financial support to the private sector but the market is likely to shrink this year.
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