Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co is considering the acquisition of $2.5bn Swedish pan-European dialysis group Diaverum, according to reports.
Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) celebrated its 20th anniversary at Arab Health trade show in Dubai with an agreement with Moorfield Eye Hospital Dubai to expand its services by 20%.
The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has further set out its plans to introduce a value-based model of health care across the emirate. HBI spoke to the DHA to find out more at Arab Health.
Five of the largest UK university hospitals, with a total revenue of £6.2bn, have come together to compete more effectively in the international market for hospital and medical consulting as the King’s International Consortium (KIC). But will they be able to compete with the big US academic medical centres which dominate international tertiary medicine, or with Korean and Indian players who offer lower cost and more flexible hospital management?
The gap between doctors pay in the public and private sectors is rising steeply, according to international recruitment agencies. In some cases doctors are getting almost twice as much in the latter.
Many emerging market hospital groups seem a hot ticket at the moment. They have the stability which comes with hospitals, married to far more growth than you might expect in Europe, but the workforce war is making investors think twice. HBI speaks to two experts to learn more about how in-house training is proving to be a solution to workforce woes.
Dubai-based listed health care and education investment firm Amanat Holdings is merging two of its post acute care providers in the GCC region, Sukoon and Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center (CMRC), in the latest move in its plan to build the region's largest post-acute care platform.
MENA-based Altibbi has come a long way from its humble 2008 beginnings as a printed medical dictionary. HBI chats with co-founder Jalil Allabadi about the region’s largest digital health platform.
Major UAE hospital group Burjeel Holdings has chosen to set its IPO price at just 2 dirhams ($0.54) per share. It plans to sell 11% of its share capital (550.7 million shares) when it goes public on Monday, October 10, which will raise 1.1bn dirhams ($299.51m) at this price.
Michael B. Davis, the CEO of the UAE's largest private sector healthcare provider, NMC Healthcare, is standing down. His last day with the group will be December 20, and he leaves having steered the group through the most trying years in its history. Once seemingly facing financial ruin, NMC came out of administration at the end of last year.
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