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Korian’s FY 2017 revenue was flat in France but big in Belgium

European nursing home giant Korian saw revenue growth of 5% in 2017 of which half was organic. Growth was slow in France while the acquisition of 1,000 beds from Senior Assist Belgium helped its revenue grow 40% there - the same disparity was seen in organic growth.

Interview: Dr Bruno Gridelli, Senior Vice President, UPMC International

How do you build an international business delivering high-quality specialist care working with governments, public payors, regions and for-profit operators? UPMC, the big US academic medical centre, has done just this in four very different countries: Italy, Ireland, Kazakhstan and China. We talk to Dr Gridelli about the business model and challenges.

IVF/lab group sells stake to Oaktree; buys in Italy, Spain and Switzerland

NL Holding has sold a 30% stake to Oaktree Capital, while simultaneously acquiring fertility providers and specialised diagnostic laboratories in Switzerland, Italy and Spain. This coincides with Oaktree offloading its pan-European dentistry platform. We take a more detailed look at what NL has bought. 

Are you ready for GDPR?

The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Integrated care and value health set to soar in Europe

European politicians increasingly get the value of care which integrates social and acute or the holistic treatment of chronic diseases. They also want value healthcare models which reward operators for quality. Pilots are becoming larger and, in some cases, have been rolled out as long-term projects covering millions of people. There are plenty of opportunities for nimble private sector players. We look at what is happening across Europe.

FREE BLOG Italy’s shrinking markets

It’s more than five years since the Italian government, buckling under a national debt of around 125% of GDP, implemented Mario Monti’s austerity measures, described as one of the severest responses to the financial crisis in Europe at that time.

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