France and the UK are proving tough for hospital operators with falling revenues and margins, Germany, the Nordics and Spain are better. But across Europe, revenue growth is low thanks to budget ceilings, insourcing and DRG cuts.
Private equity group Bridgepoint has launched the sale of Care UK's nursing home segment. It could fetch a multiple twice what it paid when acquiring and de-listing the company in 2010, having tripled revenues and increased EBITDA by a third since then. We talk to a healthcare real estate expert to find out more.
The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International’s CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.ath to compliance.
Strong sales in the hospital segment of Germany-based healthcare giant Fresenius, and the acquisition of Quironsalud in Spain, were behind a rise in net profit in FY2017- but potential changes to staff ratio rules in Germany could limit profits going forwards.
Terveystalo's maiden results reveal 26% revenue growth and an almost 27% increase in adjusted EBITDA for 2017 - but most of that comes from acquisitions which, along with IPO costs, has halved the company's earnings-per-share and profit for the period. Healthcare Europa looks at the results with an analyst to find out more.
In a surprise move, the planned Christian Democrat/Social Democrat coalition has announced Jens Spahn as healthcare minister. Normally, the coalition has given the caring ministries to lefties. Not this time.
The CEO of Healthcare at Home, the high revenue, low margin medicalised homecare giant with billions in revenue in the UK and a sales presence in DACH, has stepped down.
France's second-largest hospital group, Elsan, has sold three clinics totalling just over 200 beds to DocteGestio. The smaller group has been buying heavily in healthcare, social care and hotels in the capital region and Normandy, and is now in the top 20 health and social care operator's in France by revenue.
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