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Interview: Jill Watts, CEO BMI Healthcare

Jill Watts has worked in healthcare for almost 40 years, and since she was appointed group CEO of BMI Healthcare in November 2014, she's been widely credited with turning the business around. A former CEO of Ramsay UK, she has strong views about the market, the state of the NHS, and the role of the private sector. Here's what she had to say when Healthcare Europa caught up with her in London.
February 26, 2017

FREE BLOG HR: an international market and an international headache

The ability to staff a healthcare provider is perhaps the prime determinant of its success. But recruiting, retaining and training doctors, nurses and support staff has never been harder. Nurses, in particular, are slipping out of health systems like water through a sieve. And their desperate employers are resorting to desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to staff their wards.
February 24, 2017

Polish lab group Diagnostyka to sell in a “rejuvenated market”

Large Polish lab group Diagnostyka is going to be put up for sale, as private equity player Mid Europa Partners looks to cash in again following on from its successful sale of Alpha Medical. Healthcare Europa catches up with Mid Europa co-managing partner Matthew Strassberg at a time when M&A activity has "rejuvenated" the market.
February 24, 2017

Finland prospects brighten further

Specialist care could be provided under a voucher scheme in Finland and freedom of choice in health and social care will be even more extensive than previously hoped, say quoted care and outpatient group Pihlajalinna.
February 24, 2017

Montenegro government looks to privatise healthcare centre

The Montenegro government is looking to privatise healthcare centre Simo Milosevic, a boutique spa and rehabilitation facility in in the municipality of Herceg Novi. The media in Montenegro is reporting that investors from UAE, China, Norway and Israel are interested in the planned sale of the centre, which is 56% state owned, and also known as Institute Igalo.
February 23, 2017

Gilde-backed Rad-x enters Germany

Gilde-backed diagnostics imaging group Rad-x is buying Acura Rheinland-Pfalz from German operator AccuMeda as it moves to consolidate the German radiotherapy market. We speak to Martin Hardens, founder and CEO of Rad-x.
February 23, 2017

Interview: Fredrik Gren, CEO, and Daniel Warnholtz, CFO, Ambea

Swedish disabled and elderly care services provider Ambea, the second largest in the country with 2015 revenue of SEK4.4bn (approximately €470m), wants to reinforce its presence in the disabled care segment, increase residential care and have a contract model less reliant on outsourcing. Healthcare Europa asks CEO Fredrik Gren and CFO Daniel Warnholtz why - and whether an IPO is on the cards.
February 22, 2017

Mediclinic’s Middle East problems

Insiders at Arab Health were talking about Mediclinic’s Middle East problems several weeks before the announcement which saw the shares fall 5%. So what are they saying?
February 21, 2017
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