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Report: Psychiatry: The private sector expands across Europe

Across Europe, a nascent private sector is expanding into psychiatric care provision for the continent’s public payors. But with all major markets still stuck in the economic doldrums, are they fighting for a shrinking slice of the pie? Healthcare Europa takes a look at select markets to see how far private operators are making inroads into mental healthcare.
October 2, 2012

FREE BLOG That fall in confidence in the English NHS

I don’t do autobiography as a rule, but it is striking what an impact NHS rationing is having on the Hotopf family. Our experience might inform a recent statistic that, over the last year, confidence in the NHS has dropped from 70% to 58%. Many fear that services will get worse in 2013.
October 2, 2012

Falck buys PreviaSundhed

Falck, the big ambulance and fire engine outsourcing group, headquartered in Denmark has expanded its occupational health arm in Denmark with the acquisition of PreviaSundhed from TryghedsGruppen.
September 28, 2012

French nursing homes storm ahead

More rock-solid half-year results from the big three French nursing homes, which have successfully moved into Italy, Spain, Belgum and Germany. But why are Korian's shares down 12% over the year? Why is Medica down 2%? Why is Orpea ahead only 9% despite 15% sales growth in the first half, when the French CAC index is up 11%?
September 28, 2012

CRC collapses

Catalan imaging services provider CRC Corporacio Sanitaria has gone into bankruptcy under a debt burden of €44m, according to Spanish newspaper Expansion. This follows the collapse of Balague, the big spanish reference lab group, earlier in September.
September 28, 2012

New CEO at Euromedic

Big imaging services provider Euromedic International has appointed Dimitris Moulavasilis as its new CEO, following the departure earlier in 2012 of Richard di Benedetto. A CFO has yet to be announced, but has been selected.
September 25, 2012

FREE BLOG Why disruptive competition is a good idea in healthcare services

“Can we combine competition and integration?” asks Chris Ham, Chief Executive of the King’s Fund. “Can we move beyond the polarised debate and take a look at what the benefits and problems of competition actually are?” Presenting at the Summer meeting of the European Health Policy Group in London, Ham clearly thought that the answer was yes.
September 21, 2012

Interview: Valerie Michie, managing director of healthcare services, Serco

How much and how far will the different NHSs in the UK go in outsourcing services to the private sector?  We talk to Valerie Michie, managing director of health services at Serco, which is running a pioneering community care project in Suffolk. Analysts reckon Serco has more than doubled its healthcare outsourcing since 2011, when it claimed a 5% share of a £2 billion market in health support services to the NHS in the UK. That market that is expected to double by 2015.
September 21, 2012

Spain and Italy improve payment terms to providers

Most Spanish regions are now paying healthcare service providers in 60-90 days. Even in Italy, the situation is improving, with troubled healthcare region Lazio pioneering a web portal that makes debt securitisation much easier.
September 21, 2012

Tosinvest Sanita fails to pay staff

Big Italian rehabilitation clinic chain San Raffaele, owned by the Tosinvest Sanita group, is pulling out of Lazio, costing 2,000 jobs. The company is citing the region’s delayed payments as the primary cause. On September 16, news broke that the company hadn’t paid its employees in the last nine days.
September 21, 2012
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