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Quiron and IDC mega-merger to get go ahead

Expect the Spanish competition authorities to give the go-ahead for the merger between Quiron and IDCSalud, which will create a private hospital chain with sales of €1.5bn.
November 28, 2014

Finnish insurer to slash costs with new chain of outpatient centres

Finnish insurer Pohjola wants to revolutionise private healthcare by opening a chain of wholly-owned outpatient centres, which will cover ambulatory surgery, diagnostics and specialist consultations. Pohjola’s head of health and well-being, Harri Aho claims that, based on the first Helsinki facility, the new stream-lined business model will halve treatment times against national averages. He says other insurers will follow. We investigate.
November 28, 2014

FREE BLOG Labs in India – 25% growth, but it’s a jungle

Just had a fascinating chat with Ameera Shah, who set up a lab chain, Metropolis Healthcare in India in 2002 when she was 20. Since then, she has grown it to one of the top three in the country and expanded into (wait for it) Kenya, South Africa, UAE, Nigeria, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Mauritius!
November 28, 2014

Big co-pays cut demand in Netherlands

Introducing co-pay for the first visit to secondary care has led to a dramatic and continuing drop in activity in Dutch hospitals claims Rob van Liefland, who heads up mobile theatre operator Vanguard Healthcare’s push into Europe. We investigate.
November 28, 2014

Sweden’s Praktikertjänst faces uncertain future

Shareholders of Sweden’s largest primary care and dentist firm Praktikertjänst (PTJ) are about to face a drastic rise in their income tax – it could be as high as 58% – after purchasing shares at a lower rate than market value. Healthcare Europa journalist Lee Murray spoke to PTJ CEO Johan Fredriksson, and former Director of PTJ dentistry Per Rehnberg, now CEO of dental organisation Coloseum Smile Group, about the future of PTJ.
November 28, 2014

Adelis snaps up Med Group

Swedish private equity house Adelis Equity Partners has bought a majority stake in Finnish healthcare services outfit Med Group, which does everything from ambulance services to dentistry and from ophthalmology to homecare. The deal is its first foray into healthcare services. Per Batelson, the former CEO of Capio, who is speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015, is to invest in the company and join the board.
November 21, 2014

FREE BLOG European or American? Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security

International expansion within the healthcare services sector is happening at speed. The last month has seen Spanish hospital group Hospiten announce its acquisition of five hospitals on the Mexican pacific coast from Amerimed, Ramsay Healthcare announce a joint venture in China and Interhealth Canada get the go-ahead for the first operator-led PPP in Eastern Europe at Zywiec in Poland. But all of this is to look at internationalisation through a Western prism.
November 21, 2014

Interview: Martin Swegmark, CEO, Purch

Procurement remains an area where healthcare providers can make substantial savings. Swedish-based Purch has started benchmarking prices across Europe, and works for the public sector in Norway and Sweden and for private players in seven countries. CEO Martin Swegmark joined what became the hospital chain Capio in 1998 and later spent a long time at the lab group Unilabs where he was involved in procurement projects where they achieved Pan-European pricing contracts from suppliers.
November 21, 2014
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