Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Open access

 

Interview: Jaap Dijkman, CEO, Medial-Atal

We talk to Jaap Dijkman, who will take over as CEO of Medial-Atal from October 2012. The newly-merged group is now the largest diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands, with forecast 2012 sales of €60 million.
September 3, 2012

FREE BLOG The problem with private medical insurance and what to do about it

Financial products where brokers and others take big commissions never represent good value for consumers.  Unit trusts in most countries are poor value given the slice taken by brokers and then the slice taken by fund managers who, on average, fail to beat the index. Private medical insurance in the UK is worse.
July 24, 2012

Polish privatisation in 2013

Hospitals in Poland which run into debt will be forced to become limited companies by the end of 2012. Around 220 or 30% of the 740 have debts. During 2013 the government and municipalities will either close them, invest or privatise these units. So what are the prospects for the private sector?
July 23, 2012

UK PMI goes to the web

Private medical insurance for individuals looks set to move online and direct, following Bupa’s decision to end the payment of commission to brokers from August. Bupa is also slashing the amount it will pay medics for procedures, in some cases by as much as half. The moves follow a decline of 35-40% in the number of individuals with PMI over the past 15 years according to Michael Payne, general secretary of the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries.
July 20, 2012

New insurer uses foreign hospitals to cut prices

Passport2Health, a new UK insurer, claims to cut the price of healthcare insurance to people in the UK by at least 30% and often 50% by using foreign hospitals. CEO and insurance veteran Frank Levene claims that Passport2Health, backed by Lloyds syndicate Sirius International has slashed costs by striking innovative deals with top European hospitals.
July 19, 2012

FREE BLOG Breathtaking numbers from IHH

IHH Healthcare Berhad, the second largest private hospital group in the world, has raised 6.3bn ringgit ($2bn) through an IPO in Malaysia and Singapore. The deal values 2012 prospective net profits at 21 times and values the group at 23bn ringgit ($7.3bn). So what are the lessons from this?
July 18, 2012

EXCLUSIVE: Euromedic Chairman and CEO step down

The chairman and chief executive of Euromedic, the pan-European imaging service provider, have both resigned. This comes after Montagu Investments and Ares Management bought out ownership partner BAML. We look at why the split happened, and what it could mean.
July 13, 2012

GHD Gesundheits signing big deals in nutrition

German homecare provider GHD Gesundheits, the market leader with 140,000 patients and over €300 million in revenue in 2011, has signed a distribution deal with Nestlé. GHD, owned by private equity house IK Invest, now has the exclusive distribution rights to Nestlé's enteral nutrition products in Germany - and not only in a homecare setting, but also for wholesale to hospitals. We take a look at how this will help GHD and how it will affect the German homecare market.
July 13, 2012
Older posts
Newer posts

Our Services

Company

Resources

Log in
Register
Log in
Register

Our Services

Company

Resources

Find Us