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Building in Brazil

Few diagnostic laboratories in Europe, let alone in Spain, can claim to have grown their sales by 20% in 2013. We talk to Maurizio Weisz, President of Cerba International (not to be confused with Cerba Europa, the big French group).
February 21, 2014

French government puts on the squeeze

The French government has said it wants to limit rises in its €185bn healthcare budget to 1.75% a year, down from 2.5%. Meanwhile, all sectors are on tenterhooks ahead of the announcement of the new healthcare tariffs in early March 2014. None are so desperate as the private hospitals. Their trade association, FHP-MCO, claims the key MCO (Medicine, surgery and obstetrics) tariff has risen by a total of just 1.17% over the entire eight years to 2013. That is against general inflation for the period of 11.82%. We hear that the state now wants to CUT the tariff by 0.5-1%!
February 21, 2014

Russia opens elderly care to private sector

In December the Russian State Duma passed Federal Law 442 (On the basis of social services for citizens in the Russian Federation), which officially allowed approved private care providers and set out tariff principles. The law should start to apply from early 2015. We talk to the head of the largest Russian nursing home group about what this will mean for the nascent industry.
February 21, 2014

EMC builds network in Lower Silesia

EMC, the Polish hospital privatisation chain now owned by Penta Investments and PZU, the big Polish insurer, has big plans. We talk to EMC president, Piotr Gerber.
February 20, 2014

Interview: Ralph Hefti

We look at why dentistry could develop into a series of international chains, rather like the big audit firms. How is dentistry changing and consolidating? Who better to ask than Hefti, who has recently finished a five year stint as CEO of Adent Cliniques Dentaires, the largest French Swiss dental chain.
February 18, 2014

Report: Genetic tests – a boom for the private sector?

Next-generation genetic sequencing (NGS) will have a profound impact on the healthcare landscape. Within the foreseeable future, NGS will be cost-effective and readily available to large patient groups - we can even envisage most citizens having their exome sequenced in post-natal screening programmes. What impact will this have on the practice of healthcare and on the private sector? We investigate.
February 14, 2014

Insurers seek new solution as Poland mulls new occupational healthcare rules

Healthcare insurers in Poland are keen to build a platform to compete with Medicover, as well as Bupa-owned LUX-MED, administered by a third party. Meanwhile, it still looks likely that a new occupational healthcare law will be passed this Spring, which could trigger huge growth in the private sector.
February 13, 2014

Romania to tighten basket of services

After nearly a decade since the last structural reforms to its healthcare system, the Romanian government is about to move to a new model, in which citizens' rights to free healthcare are carefully defined and restricted. Will this lead to a private healthcare bonanza?
February 13, 2014
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