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End to National Health co-payments spells disaster for Romania’s private sector

Private providers will not be able to charge co-payments for treatment paid for by Romania's National Health Insurance Fund. The move is a blow private hospitals and particularly for the new radiotherapy centres which have sprung up. We assess the likely damage.

July 7, 2014

Doctagon merger creates new doctor to domiciliary care service

Doctagon, the innovative Finnish home care service has merged its home doctor services with domiciliary care provider Kodinavux to form Stella. The deal means that Doctagon can offer patients everything from home diagnosis from a doctor through to cleaning and childcare. Private equity house Intera Partner is taking an 80% stake in Stella.

July 7, 2014

Goldman Sachs to sell Median Kliniken

As forecast here in May 2014, Advent International is to sell Median, the big German reha chain. Goldman Sachs is kicking off the process. But who will buy?

July 4, 2014

Medical Properties Trust to strike second European deal with the purchase of CircleBath

Quoted-UK hospital operator Circle Holdings is selling CircleBath Hospital and Healthcare Europa has been told that US REIT Medical Properties Trust is the front-runner to buy the property.

July 4, 2014

Labor Limbach’s unification plans on track

Limbach, the largest German lab group, is in the process of transforming from a Holy Roman Empire of shareholdings into a single group.

July 3, 2014

Inside the shake-up of the Dutch private clinic market

A third of Dutch private clinics will go bust by 2016 if they lose out to not-for-profit foundation hospitals in getting contracts from insurers, according to private clinic association ZKN. How is the market set to change? We look at the Dutch free market healthcare model and the role private clinics play in keeping costs […]

June 27, 2014

Falck creates Scandinavia’s largest occupational healthcare group

Falck, the international ambulance to fire engine giant, has created the largest Scandinavian player in occupational healthcare, Falck Healthcare, with sales of €395m and 2,000 staff, through a three-way merger with Previa and Quick Care, both owned by Danish fund group TryhedsGruppen. The deal leaves TryhedsGruppen with a 40% stake in Falck Healthcare and 2.3% in Falck Holding. Meanwhile, Falck has built clinic chains in Denmark and Poland. We talk to Jørn Wendel Andersen, CEO of TryghedsGruppen and Jan Steenhard, CEO of Falck Healthcare services division.

June 27, 2014

Laastari looks to Europe

The Finnish equivalent to the US walk-in Minuteclinic concept is looking to expand into the UK and Germany. So three years after we first looked at Laastari Lähiklinikka, what has been its track record?

June 27, 2014

Fresenius Medical Care pulls out of Amedes and Synlab

Dialysis giant Fresenius MC decided not to buy Synlab after carrying out due diligence and has also pulled out of the running to buy Amedes. Meanwhile, it has just purchased a majority stake in US healthcare management group Sound Physicians.

June 27, 2014

Sweetheart deal for Universal Hospital Group?

We hear that the 11 hospitals in Universal Hospital Group, once the largest chain in Turkey, have found a buyer.

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