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Labco bid process goes soggy

The deadline for final bids for Labco passed last week. How many bids were received, and what prices are being offered? Is PAI-backed Cerba the only bidder, or will standalone private equity houses come out of the woodwork?
April 9, 2013

Inicea forms third-largest French psychiatry chain

French care home and rehabilitation group Korian has found a buyer in LFPI-backed Inicea for its psychiatric division. The sale will help to fund its German nursing home foray with Curanum. We take a look at the EBITDA multiple paid, Inicea’s plans and the psychiatry sector in France.
April 9, 2013

First deal made in French secondary market

What is believed to be the first deal in the secondary market for French acute hospitals has been struck by Gecimed, the healthcare arm of property REIT Gecina. But it looks as though the yield which was not disclosed was high.
April 9, 2013

Will liberalisation come to the Dutch lab market?

Dutch Minister of Health Edith Schippers has begun the task of reforming the nation’s laboratory sector - but is this good news? Independent labs in the country must, by law, be not-for-profits. They are, essentially, uninvestible. With changes coming to the €730m primary care diagnostics market, some labs eagerly expect liberalisation. We talk to Kees Broekman, manager of clinic operator VieCuri’s diagnostics department, and Thijs Veerman, CEO of independent primary care diagnostics operator Star-MDC, to find out more.
April 9, 2013

Patient records recruit B2C

The former Innovation Director at Belgium’s National Union of Health Insurance Funds, chronic disease management guru Jan van Emelen is trying to make patient records work better. Like Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli of the UK’s Patients Know Best, van Emelen is creating records that are owned and controlled by patients, rather than clinicians - but, unlike his peer in the UK, van Emelen is recruiting on a business-to-consumer (B2C) basis with funding from big pharma. With 17,000 patients already enrolled, will his different approach pay off?
April 9, 2013

Russian PMI – not as big as it looks

The Russian private medical insurance (PMI) market has been pegged at RUB 110bn (€2.7bn) - but is this the true size of the market? How is the private sector in Russia developing? Wolfgang Wand, Managing Partner at CKW Consult, and Khawar Mann, CEO of Medsi, talk to us about Russian healthcare.
April 9, 2013

Hospital privatisation comes to Switzerland

Sources in Switzerland tell us that the process has begun: public hospitals will be privatised. Centre-right cantons now have the power to start Swiss hospital privatisation.
April 9, 2013

FREE BLOG Can patients judge doctors successfully?

How valid are patients’ views of their care? Research from the British Consumers’ Association suggests that patients are capable of accurately assessing the quality offered by general practitioners (GPs).
April 9, 2013
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