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Is last year’s free choice reform in Norway which only attracted 250 patients a “complete disaster”?

One year ago, the Norwegian government introduced a free choice reform, giving patients the opportunity to be referred to private hospitals. Only 250 patients have done so to date. Per Helge Fagermoen, CEO of the country’s second largest private hospital chain Volvat, explains why.

October 21, 2016

Singapore-based investment company puts $250m into Chinese joint venture

A Singapore-based investment company has invested $250m into an Asian healthcare provider, to cater to China's growing middle-classes.

October 20, 2016

Romania’s Medlife may IPO imminently

Romania's largest healthcare group Medlife has hired banker Raiffeisen to advise on an IPO next month, in November. The listing will provide private equity house Value4Capital (V4C) a way to exit its 36% stake after more than a year of unfruitful attempts to disinvest.

October 20, 2016

Interview: Mike Moran, Proton Partners International, on building specialist cancer treatment centres

With three advanced cancer treatment centres being built in the UK, and the newly acquired Gulf International Cancer Centre in Abu Dhabi set to become the first proton beam therapy centre in the UAE, Proton Partners International is making big plans for the future. We speak to CEO Mike Moran, MBE, about how a business formed in February last year is making plans to go global.

October 20, 2016

Alliance Medical attracts bidders

Alliance Medical, the mainly Anglo-Italian imaging services group, has attracted several second round bidders. We investigate.

October 20, 2016

Orpea continues to buy in Spain

Pan-European care provider Orpea has bought Residencia Reyes de Aragón and Centro Residencial Erit, two nursing home standalones in Zaragoza and Barcelona, respectively. We look at Orpea's prospects for expansion following the Sanyres acquisition.

October 20, 2016

Private equity house buys 22 Priory Group facilities for £320m

Private equity house BC Partners is buying 22 mental health hospitals from Acadia-owned Priory Group for £320m. The deal comes as Acadia remains under pressure to comply with competition laws after its purchase of Priory Group for £1.3bn in January 2016.

October 19, 2016

How is healthcare investment in Brazil – after the foreign investment ban was lifted?

Brazil lifted the ban on foreign investments in hospitals in 2015. Is this attracting a new wave of healthcare investments and what is this doing to competition among the big groups? We ask independent consultant Martín Benítez Ramírez for an overview of the biggest deals. Ramirez has extensive M&A experience in Brazilian healthcare. He was in charge of […]

October 18, 2016

Polish plans for NHS concern healthcare experts

Poland's Law and Justice government is radically reforming the country's healthcare system. It has already removed a mechanism driving the privatisation of state hospitals. Now, a sequence of bills is being prepared that will reform primary care, bring in an NHS style system and create a national hospital network with access to state funds. We investigate.

October 18, 2016

Bupa and Axa loss ratios show PMI becoming a much less attractive product

Operators are circulating loss ratio figures from Bupa and Axa which show that the UK's two largest private medical insurers have substantially reduced the amount of premium they pay out over the last five years. The operators are claiming that the pay out rates are far lower than in other PMI markets and mean that PMI has become a poor product for consumers in the UK.

October 17, 2016

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