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Competition Commission report is a paper tiger

UK private hospital operators are quietly confident that they can successfully challenge the Competition Commission's findings against the sector, which they claim are full of elementary errors. As one source says: “Some of the numbers in the report are just plain wrong. The Commission’s definition of 'profit' is, itself, highly controversial.”
November 8, 2013

Will the Croat government abandon private-sector partnerships?

Croatia's centre-left government remains undecided on what role the private sector is to play in the country’s new healthcare system, following the entry of the country of 4.3 million people into the European Union. The state health fund, the HZZO, has not renewed its contracts with most private providers when they expired at the end of December 2012, and private players wait with baited breath to hear the verdict. Meanwhile, a strike in the public healthcare sector continues.
November 8, 2013

Greek government promises payment after five-day strike by private providers

From October 29 to November 3, Greece's private hospitals have refused to treat patients insured by the country’s statutory payor, the National Organisation for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY). The insurer owes €800m in arrears to private healthcare facilities. We talk to Velis Pappas, Commercial Director at Athens-based Euroclinic, to find out more.
November 6, 2013

Report: Will big medtech follow Medtronic into services?

Will big medtech follow the IBM path from product supplier to service provider? No other medtech company has expanded as fast as Medtronic into services. Here, we look at what the company offers, as well as its plans for the future. We also talk to one of its new customers, and look at how far the big imaging groups are willing and ready to move into the service arena. What impact will this have on existing service providers?
November 5, 2013

Marseille to sell most of its nursing homes

Ulrich Marseille, the tempestuous owner of quoted German nursing home group Marseille Kliniken, may sell almost all of its 57 nursing homes to another care home operator and convert it to an IT company. He is said to be in talks with Carlyle ,which invested in Ameos and Alloheim in 2012, and is making an ambitious play to dominate the German nursing home and psychiatric space. It appears to be trying to build a group large enough to exit by IPO.
November 1, 2013

American REITs reach mainland Europe

For the first time, one of the specialist healthcare US REITs has purchased a medical portfolio in mainland Europe. Medical Properties (MPT) is paying $244.7m (€181.78m) for almost the entire portfolio of German operator RHM Klinik- und Altenheimbetriebe, which is owned by Waterland Private Equity.
November 1, 2013

Capita counts itself out at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

The largest tenders in the history of the English NHS, for community services in Peterborough and Cambridge - worth £750m and over £1bn, respectively - may fail. Capita, the big outsourcing group, which was bidding with private hospital group Circle Health, has pulled out of the bidding, alleging that the price demanded by the NHS is 25% too low. We look at the numbers, and at the chances for more functional outsourcing of hospitals.
October 31, 2013

FREE BLOG A sea change in attitudes to procurement

The English NHS, like all healthcare systems, doesn’t procure well. Part of the problem has historically been physician preference, where hospital procurement chiefs say that they are finally seeing a sea change in attitudes among doctors.
October 31, 2013

FREE BLOG Has burgerversicherung died?

German private insurers, and the private healthcare services sector as a whole, are breathing a collective sigh of relief after Burgerversicherung, a unified statutory insurance policy, failed to make it to the Social Democrats' list of top ten negotiating points for the coalition. The policy would have meant the effective phasing out of private insurance. Still, the Social Democrats' number one demand, the introduction of a minimum wage of €8.50 per hour, could hurt.
October 29, 2013
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