20-Nov-15 With growing numbers of Chinese celebrities such as Olympic athlete Liu Xiang seeking treatment abroad, more people in China are realizing they can also seek medical care overseas. The five-year cancer survival rate is 30%, half that of patients in the US. Besides lower standards of care, complaints about Chinese hospitals include long waiting times, lengthy diagnoses and impatient doctors. [image: MetroCebu News]

13-Oct-15 As China's growing 40+ population suffers increasingly from lifestyle diseases such as cardiac problems and cancer, many of the wealthy among them will seek treatment in the US or Europe. And many more will spend some of their new found wealth on plastic surgery, dentistry or wellness programs in Korea or Southeast Asia. Chinese medical tourists spent USD10 bn in 2014, only 2.3% of the global total, suggesting that there is a huge potential for further growth in the market. What can hospitals and governments do to tap into this opportunity? [image: Travel Daily News]

18-Nov-15 UK healthcare providers and elderly care companies are seeking business opportunities in China to tap the rising demand for elderly care. Tunstall Healthcare, a UK health technology firm, is opening a showroom in Shanghai to showcase its health monitoring capabilities. The UK's IHG is building a hospital in South China for China Railway Engineering Corp, while Annie Barr, Glasgow Caledonian University and Kings College London are training Chinese health professionals in five cities as China aims to train 150,000 doctors and 2 million nurses by 2020. [image: Venture Capital Post]

05-Nov-15 Australia's Ramsay Health Care has struck a joint venture agreement to open a string of high quality international hospitals in China's Pearl River Delta. The JV is with Jinan University No.1 Affiliated Hospital, also known as Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital, and has the support of the Chinese government. [image: The Sydney Morning Herald]

20-Nov-15 China’s first listed psychiatric hospital is on track to break the mental-health taboo in a country where such illnesses are still stigmatised by traditional perceptions. Due to begin trading on 27-Nov-15, privately-owned Wenzhou Kangning Hospital is set to raise HKD681 million in a Hong Kong IPO. [image: SCMP / Bruce Yan]