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Norwegian government examines private sector involvement

Healthcare was a hot topic in the 2013 Norwegian elections. The right won partly on a promise to involve the private sector, with state money following the patient. But how to implement the pledge? The country's Minister of Health and Care Services might be having second thoughts.
February 7, 2014

Curagita starts buy-and-build

Curagita, the service provider to 100 German outpatient radiology practices, has just agreed to buy Conradia, a large outpatient radiology practice in Hamburg. Conradia has 63 staff and sales of roughly €5m. This is part of a plan to consolidate the imaging sector, emulating what has already happened in diagnostic labs.
January 31, 2014

Finnish property sector grows

Healthcare property is selling in Finland, as BPT Asset Management raises a second fund. We talk to fund manager Jussi Rouhento.
January 31, 2014

Things look much brighter in Sweden

The leftish Social Democrats in Sweden are likely to win the September 2014 election, and private healthcare and private equity are big, public issues. But there are encouraging signs that the SDs won’t damage the private sector as much as feared. Good news for all those investors who want out.
January 31, 2014

Greek government breaks promise – so what’s new?

More nail-biting waits for the Greek private sector, despite the private provider strike in late 2013. During the strike, providers demanded that patients funded by public payors, be paid for up-front for treatment. Providers handed invoices to patients to present to government offices. The short publicity stunt led to an apparent cave from the government. Now, we're not so sure.
January 30, 2014

Helios gets provisional green light

The German cartel office has given Fresenius' hospital group Helios the provisional green light for its acquisition of 40 of Rhoen Klinikum’s hospitals, although the final approval will be in late February. Rhoen has, however, been forced to keep three of the hospitals it had hoped the sell. And in a role reversal, HCM SE, a vehicle controlled by Rhoen boss Eugen Munch, is buying two Helios hospitals elsewhere. The deal, which creates a German hospital behemoth with sales of €5.5bn, should be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2014. So what does the new Rhoen, still Germany’s fourth-largest private hospital group, look like?
January 30, 2014

New record for bed prices in Paris

A new record for French nursing homes has been set in Paris, in a property deal that values each bed in a Parisian home at nearly €250,000.
January 30, 2014

Van Gelder to quit Mediq

Marc van Gelder, the 52-year-old CEO of Mediq, the international distributor and direct-to-consumer medicalised homecare player, is to step down little more than a year after private equity house Advent took the group private for €775m in early 2013. His replacement has yet to be found.
January 30, 2014

FREE BLOG Why spend billions on genetic tests if people won’t change their behaviour?

What is the point of spending billions on genetic tests, which warn patients of potential health conditions, if they pay no attention to the result? That is the question now being asked in countries like the UK, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia who, together, make up the most enthusiastic adherents thus far to evidence-based medicine.
January 29, 2014
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