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Interview: Ralph Hefti

We look at why dentistry could develop into a series of international chains, rather like the big audit firms. How is dentistry changing and consolidating? Who better to ask than Hefti, who has recently finished a five year stint as CEO of Adent Cliniques Dentaires, the largest French Swiss dental chain.

Interview: Sergey Volchenkov, Head of Hospitality Investment, Venture Investments & Yield Management

Russian private equity house Venture Investments & Yield Management (VIYM) has just bought a substantial stake in Semeiny Doktor, a Moscow chain of family medical clinics. We talk to VIYM’s Sergey Volchenkov about the deal and the Russian outpatient market.

Interview: Henk de Jong, CEO, Fa-Med

Will a pan-European market in medical factoring develop? Will we even see statutory pan-European healthcare insurers? We talk to Henk de Jong, CEO of Fa-Med, the largest medical factoring group in the Netherlands - and, probably, in Europe - which is looking at Germany, Poland and Switzerland. Fa-Med has been owned by Waterland private equity for over a decade. Henk is a delegate at the Healthcare Europa conference on March 13, 2014 in London.

Interview: Mark Hellowell, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Hellowell is a healthcare academic who specialises in PPPs, evaluating their performance around the world, consulting with development agencies and acting as a special adviser to the Health Select Committee in the British House of Commons. He also lectures on healthcare reform to a diverse group of postgraduate students, many of them from developing countries. We talk to him about the role private healthcare companies can, and are, playing in the developing and developed worlds, the future for PPPs, and whether they are “a good thing”.

Interview: Philipp Jan Flach, Director, MC Groep

MC Groep, after taking control of a general hospital group in 2008, has just bought privatised hospital Slotervaart Ziekenhuis. This adds to its existing operation Stichting Ijsselmeerziekenhuizen, more than doubling its scale. Healthcare Europa estimates that, all together, MC generates sales of around €250m a year. We talk to Director Philipp Jan Flach about the MC model, the group’s plans and how he sees the Dutch market. Flach, a medical doctor, spent seven years at Bain before joining MC Groep in 2009.

Interview: Stephen Collier, CEO, BMI

We talk to the CEO of BMI, the UK’s largest private hospital group, about marketing, the UK sector, the Competition Commission report and BMI propco GHG's well-publicised problems. A network of sixty private hospitals ranging from 20- to 150-bed facilities, BMI covers the UK and saw sales rise 2% to £851m in 2013. It is owned by South African operator Netcare and private equity house Apax.

Interview: Stuart Fletcher, CEO, Bupa

It has been a busy year for insurer, hospital operator and care group Bupa. New CEO Stuart Fletcher is spending roughly £1.25bn to buy businesses in half a dozen countries across the world. That includes the planned acquisition of Cruz Blanca, a Chilean service provider and insurer, as well as the purchases of Quality HealthCare (a network of 102 outpatient clinics and 500 affiliates in Hong Kong), Richmond Villages (an assisted living business in the UK), LUX MED (the largest subscription healthcare operator in Poland), ten nursing homes in Australia, and dentists here, there and everywhere. All this is part of the Bupa 2020 master plan, which will see the world’s largest player in ex-pat insurance deliver far more integrated care. We talk to Fletcher to find out more.

Interview: Kristof Jacunski, Partner, TOM Investment Group

Origin Active Lifestyle Communities, a Canadian group that manages housing and care facilities for seniors, is entering the Polish market. Founder and CEO Neil A. Prashad expects to build the first of its communities on Polish soil within the next two years, at a location near Warsaw, at a cost of PLN 50-80m (€12-19m). The Warsaw community will feature 110-150 housing units, a day care facility, and a nursing care home. Residents will fund themselves by paying out-of-pocket. Origin has partnered with Austrian and Polish investors to execute the project. We interview Krzysztof Jacunski, Partner at Polish backer TOM Investment Group – one of Origin’s investors - to find out more about the motivation behind the venture, the state of the Polish market and Origin’s business strategy.

Interview: Dag Andersson, CEO, Diaverum

With close to 300 dialysis centres in 19 countries, Diaverum's Dag Andersson claims to run “the most global healthcare service in the world”. The company is majority-owned by private equity house Bridgepoint, which hired JP Morgan in January 2013 to review the company's strategic options. We speak to Andersson about Diaverum's future.

Interview: Matthew Strassberg, Senior Partner, Mid Europa

Diagnostyka, the Mid Europa-owned Polish leader in laboratory diagnostics, has just snapped up Olympus Consilio, the largest specialised pathology lab in Poland. This follows the acquisition last week by Mid Europa’s Czech and Slovak laboratory arm, Alpha Medical, of Euromedic’s Czech lab business. We talk to Matthew Strassberg, Senior Partner at Mid Europa, who is in bullish form.

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