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FREE BLOG “Very profitable” Ober Scharrer heading for a sale?

Rumour has it that German ophthalmology chain Ober Scharrer will be sold in the winter. Of course, its CEO Sibylle Stauch-Eckmann couldn’t possibly comment. Nonetheless, she tells us the group now has 5% of the country’s rapidly consolidating eye-care market and a strong pipeline offering further growth. Ober Scharrer, now the largest chain of ophthalmic […]
November 1, 2014

FREE BLOG Brazil: for-profit hospitals face crisis

Aside from Rede D’Or, Intermedica and Amil, Brazil is dominated by many thousands of small private hospitals. At Healthcare Latam, the inaugural Pan-Latam healthcare conference held in Sao Paolo this month, we learnt that many are now doing badly, but still won’t sell. Meanwhile, employers are seeking structural changes in healthcare delivery. Jose Carlos Villela […]
November 1, 2014

FREE BLOG Nordic-based group takes over over LATAM’s leading ambulance and homecare business

Despite strong rumours that it was set to sell off its LATAM business, Falck, the Nordic-based international ambulance, fire service, healthcare and roadside assistance group, has done the opposite – acquiring the remaining 36.9% of shares in Grupo EMI and taking full ownership of Colombia’s leading provider of ambulance services and homecare. Since the summer, […]
November 1, 2014

Stamina grabs most of Sensia

Stamina, the Scandinavian wellness, gym, occupational healthcare operator owned by Herkules Capital, has snapped up Sensia’s primary care and occupational healthcare arm in Sweden.
October 31, 2014

What does Kopacz spell for private sector?

What are the prospects for the private sector under Ewa Kopacz, the new centre right Polish prime minister, a doctor and former Minister of Health? She has just taken over the helm of the Civic Platform-led government from Donald Tusk and pledged faster access to acute care and more nursing homes.
October 31, 2014

Lab and imaging projects prove tough

The massive long-term lab and imaging service contracts associated with the big Turkish hospital PFIs are proving a headache for providers to price.
October 31, 2014

Labco postpones IPO

Labco, the big Pan-West European lab group has decided to postpone its IPO until 2015. We look at why.
October 31, 2014

CVC mega merger could be torpedoed

Private equity house CVC’s planned merger of IDC Salud and Quieron to create a €1.5bn sales private hospital gorilla is under threat.
October 31, 2014

Interview: Vuk Vukovic, Partner, Blue Sea Capital

MediGroup is Serbia’s largest private healthcare provider. As well as a private hospital with 60 beds, it has a chain of outpatient clinics and recently bought the largest ophthalmology practice in the country. We talk to Vuk Vukovic at investor Blue Sea Capital about Medigroup’s business model and the Serbian market.
October 28, 2014
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