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Euromedic appoints HSBC

Imaging services provider Euromedic has appointed HSBC to review the business. Bankers expect this to lead to a sale this autumn.
July 24, 2014

Palamon sells Prospitalia

Palamon has sold its 2007 stake in Prospitalia, the largest German procurement hub, for three times its initial investment.
July 17, 2014

Nuffield Health to boost Manchester “health economy” through new partnership

Nuffield Health, the UK’s leading not-for-profit health care organisation, has signed a strategic health partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) that will see a multi-million pound state-of-the-art hospital and a wellbeing centre built in central Manchester. Nuffield is set to buy the land adjacent to the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust. Once MMU’s Elizabeth […]
July 15, 2014

Swiss public hospitals open up to private sector

Private hospital group Genolier has signed what it claims is Switzerland’s first ever public-private hospital partnership in French-speaking Switzerland. Similar deals have been struck with public hospitals in German- and Italian-speaking Switzerland. So how far is the Swiss public sector prepared to work with the private sector as the introduction of DRGs shakes up the market?
July 15, 2014

FREE BLOG The “retailisation” of healthcare services

In Italy, the quip goes “all the shops are shutting, apart from two types – fruit and veg shops run by migrants and healthcare shops.” The latter are offering medical services from shop fronts – dentistry, labs, imaging and some specialist services. What can we learn from this?
July 15, 2014

What impact will no co-pay have on the Romanian private sector?

As reported here last week, the National Health Insurance Fund has outlawed all co-pays for National Health Insurance Fund patients apart from a 300 lei overnight charge for hotel services. The government has also ruled that senior surgeons in the public sector can not also practice privately.
July 15, 2014

Future looks bright for private healthcare in Italy

Italian spending on private healthcare dropped in 2013 to €29.6bn, but the rise of mutual insurers and the “retailisation” of swathes of Italian healthcare means that the sector should continue to grow fast over the next decade, according to Francesco Maietta at Censis, a think tank which has just surveyed 1,200 consumers.
July 14, 2014

Is German healthcare on the brink of major reform?

German healthcare is set to undergo serious reform in 2015. Not only is the government going to reduce the cost of health insurance, it is also mulling over how it can drastically reduce the number of hospitals and beds. In January 2015, the way that German health insurance is funded is going to be altered […]
July 7, 2014
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