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Polish health group ScanMed looks for investor

ScanMed, a diverse Polish healthcare group, is looking for a strategic investor. We look at the group and who might buy it. Meanwhile, Bupa-owned LUX MED has bought an 81% stake in Carolina Medical Center.
December 18, 2013

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board backs Orpea’s international expansion

One of the world’s top 20 investors, with nearly C$200bn under management, has invested €321m for a 15% stake in French nursing home group Orpea, bought from company founder Jean-Claude Marian. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) says that it has bought into Orpea on the strength of its international expansion plans. The CPPIB also underwrote and bought 30% of a share issue to finance new growth. We look at CPPIB’s strategy, the state of play in the nursing home sector, and talk to Scott Lawrence, Vice President & Head of Relationship Investments at CPPIB.
December 18, 2013

Privatisation in Switzerland?

The introduction of DRGs is paving the way for more involvement of the private sector in public hospital provision, says Beat Roethlisberger, CEO of Genolier. Still, plenty of market distortions remain.
December 17, 2013

Interview: Stephen Collier, CEO, BMI

We talk to the CEO of BMI, the UK’s largest private hospital group, about marketing, the UK sector, the Competition Commission report and BMI propco GHG's well-publicised problems. A network of sixty private hospitals ranging from 20- to 150-bed facilities, BMI covers the UK and saw sales rise 2% to £851m in 2013. It is owned by South African operator Netcare and private equity house Apax.
December 17, 2013

FREE BLOG After Big Pharma and Big Medtech, welcome to Big Healthcare

Not so long ago, the healthcare services sector was full of almost Mom ’n’ Pop business. Hospitals were passive hoteliers for local doctors. Diagnostics was the preserve of a privileged branch of the medical profession. Insurers just paid the bills. Often, it is still like that. Recently, though, things have changed: and we can see clearly where the industry is heading.
December 17, 2013

Labco fails to sell

Labco's shareholders have rejected an offer from PAI, the private equity owner of Franco-Belgian lab group Cerba.
December 17, 2013

European Commission drags its feet

Your major competitor suddenly gets a big shot in the arm, in the form of more money from your own government. Or perhaps it gets paid 30-40% more than you for doing the same work. Or maybe barriers that have kept a subsidised state-owned company from competing in your market are suddenly removed. You launch a complaint to the European Commission, and then: nothing happens for years.
December 17, 2013

Dutch lab market set to open to external investors

The Dutch lab market is liberalising fast, offering big opportunities for international players. Not only that: a private equity house may buy a lab from a not-for-profit hospital early in the New Year. This would be the first of many deals to come. That's especially true now that there is a general political consensus that healthcare and care costs are too high, and that the private sector should be involved in the solution.
December 17, 2013

Report: Healthcare procurement – low status, fragmented, impotent. So what is the solution?

We report from Healthcare Procurement Europe, the first pan-European forum to bring together procurement professionals, suppliers and policymakers to look at how procurement in Europe could be improved. This one-day event, held in November 2013 in London and sponsored by AT Kearney and Mesa Medical, consisted of a series of presentations followed by workshops.
December 6, 2013

3i buys into discount gym sector

3i has invested €110m in Basic-Fit, which runs 200 discount gyms aross Benelux, Spain and France. The group is part of a new generation of gyms, which are one-third to half the price of the traditional players.
December 6, 2013
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