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Advent will not sell Regina Maria

Second-largest Romanian private hospital group Regina Maria will, contrary to rumours, not be sold by owner Advent International, according to our sources. Meanwhile, it looks like the private sector has been unscathed by the country’s various attempts at reforms.
June 29, 2013

Falck starts clinic chain in Russia

Danish emergency services and clinic provider Falck is moving into Russia. In mid-July, the company will open a clinic in Vladivostock with 15 overnight beds, employing 125 staff and offering a range of mostly low-acuity elective surgery.
June 21, 2013

Report: Italian reforms and cuts – An overview

The new Italian Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, seems ready to end the Italian health system in its current form. As she said to parliamentary panel this month: “The time of ‘everything for everyone’ is over.” Further cuts are scheduled across the system, while patient co-payments are pushing more customers into the private sector. We talk to observers and players in Italy to find out about the expanding role of co-insurance, and where the opportunities are now.
June 21, 2013

Portuguese government attacks PPPs

The centre-right Portuguese government has accepted damning findings in a special commission’s draft report on the country’s PPPs. Four hospitals have been tendered out to private hospital operators by the previous administration; the commission has been instructed to extend investigations beyond infrastructure, including into healthcare. What does this mean for the planned PPP in Lisbon that would consolidate six public hospitals into one site under private management?
June 21, 2013

Investigations into Dutch hospitals to go ahead

An investigation into overcharging by the 100 not-for-profit hospitals that make up the acute sector in the Netherlands will go ahead. Will this allow insurers to make changes?
June 21, 2013

PMI won’t escape Competition Commission

The Competition Commission looks set to weaken the UK insurance networks by allowing individuals with private medical insurance (PMI) to use any willing private provider. Patients wanting total choice would be able to a pay a small top-up fee if their preferred provider is not part of their insurer’s existing network. Meanwhile, earlier in June, the top five private hospital groups - BMI, Spire, Nuffield, Ramsay and HCA - bowed to pressure and published prices for self-pay patients.The UK private healthcare market is being liberalised.
June 21, 2013

Competition Commission “might force divestment”

The Competition Commission’s investigation into the UK private hospital sector has produced its first working papers. What have we learned from the published market surveys, profitability study and reports on Circle’s entry into established markets? Will the Competition Commission look to break the big groups up? Will the government look to restrict vertical integration?
June 5, 2013

Sana set to win Offenbach

Sana has pipped Helios: it is now favoured to win the contract to functionally privatise Offenbach Hospital. We look at the terms, and whether there will be more privatisation in Germany and its neighbours.
April 29, 2013

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, Chief Executive, Euromedic

How are players dependent on a shrinking public purse in South and East Europe reacting? Who better to ask than Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO of Euromedic? The company offers imaging, labs and oncology services in 15 countries, from Ireland and Portugal in the West to Russia and Turkey in the East.
April 15, 2013
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