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Interview: Fadil Elamin, Founder, Khartoum Dentist, Sudan

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
March 22, 2017

Stent price cap hurts Indian groups

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.
March 15, 2017

myTomorrows pockets €10m to bring drugs to patients

Dutch start-up myTomorrows, a web platform that matches patients with clinical trials for drugs in development, has raised €10m from the British venture capital firms Octopus Ventures, Balderton Capital, French firm Sofinnova Partners and EQT Ventures, part of the EQT Group.
January 27, 2017

Interview: Attila Vegh, CEO, Penta Hospitals Group

By 2025 Penta Hospitals Group (PHG) owned by private equity house Penta Investments, plans to more than triple sales to over €1bn. But growth could be even faster, says its new CEO, Attila Vegh, a former boss of three large English NHS hospital trusts. The real ambition of the group, a merger of Svet Zdravia in Slovakia, the Polish chain EMC and Penta’s hospitals in Czech Republic, is even greater than the sales forecasts suggest. Much of the growth he says will come from working with the public sector. Vegh says that Penta wants to be “a disrupter, a company which introduces best practice and innovation,” thus persuading public payors to rethink their attitude to the private sector. So how do you do that in a region which is becoming increasingly statist and hostile to international capitalism?
December 6, 2016

Ribera Salud denies wrongdoing as allegation of kickbacks is investigated

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.
November 25, 2016

UK healthcare faces up to Brexit

The UK has voted to leave the EU unleashing economic and political turmoil that has taken the legs out from under Sterling, ignited press hysteria and will likely see the leaders of both major parties replaced. As always, the NHS was front and centre during the campaign. But concerns for healthcare more broadly, including the private sector, are numerous. We talk to investors, operators and advisors.
July 1, 2016

Suppliers flock to Africa

The exhibitor halls at the Africa Health exhibition, which took place in Johannesburg last week, allowed a grandstand view of Africa’s developing healthcare market. Suppliers told us opportunities within the continent are multiplying. And a fascinating battle is emerging for contracts and bragging rights.
June 15, 2016

GHTs to further marginalise French private hospitals

The French private hospital sector is excluded from the latest plans to consolidate public hospitals through the creation of Groupements Hospitaliers de Territoire (GHT). Is this yet another indicator that the government is marginalising the private sector?
June 1, 2016
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