The UK NHS is taking part in a series of "speed dating" sessions across the country where NHS trusts can meet with private businesses wanting to tender for business.
We hear that Czechia-based Penta Investment's acquisition of A&D Pharma, the largest pharma chain and distribution business in Romania, will close at the upper end of local media estimates.
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.
That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.
Dutch distributor and medicalised homecare operator Mediq has sold its French operations to French disposable medical kits manufacturer and distributor Novomed – just four days before it acquires Nordics lab diagnostics equipment distributors ACC Nordic AS and ACC Nordic AB.
Sudan is open for business. And those willing to take the risk of entering a previously sieged economy, may find themselves turning over more than $32m a year, just like Fadil Elamin who runs Khartoum Dentist, a growing chain of dental clinics in the capita
Margins at Indian hospital groups are under pressure after the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) fixed the prices of stents last month, says Navneet Bali, COO of International Oncology Group Services.
Sub-Saharan Africa lacks the networks of both reliable distributors with service offerings and private equity players that can be approached with deals, says Jonathan Nighswander, director at Polish medical equipment manufacturer Famed, and Vienna-based private equity firm EMSA Capital.
Spain-based hearing aid specialist Gaes, which runs a network of 600 centres in Spain, Portugal, Turkey and South America, is looking for an external investor to fund its expansion projects.
Spain’s third largest hospital group Ribera Salud, through its purchasing arm B2B Salud, is being investigated for alleged involvement in receiving kickbacks – illicit payments to facilitate contracts. This is according to numerous reports in the Spanish press, including El Mundo, which suggests enquiries are being made into the companies, and named individuals.
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