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Orpea buys Senevita

Orpea, the big quoted French nursing home group with operations in Belgium, Spain and Italy, has pipped local contenders to buy Senevita, one of the top three Swiss nursing home chains from Austrian operator Senecura. The acquisition takes Orpea into a fast-growing, but low margin sector. We look at the Swiss market, give you the price and multiple on the deal, talk to Orpea about its plans and examine what Senecura plans to do with the money.

German healthcare tourism streaks ahead

Germany treated 224,000 foreign patients in 2012. But how many flew to Germany for treatment, as opposed to being sick holiday-makers? How do the numbers compare to the UK and other European countries? And how many are treated in the private sector? One thing is sure: Russia is Germany’s largest market today.

Report: Healthcare procurement – low status, fragmented, impotent. So what is the solution?

We report from Healthcare Procurement Europe, the first pan-European forum to bring together procurement professionals, suppliers and policymakers to look at how procurement in Europe could be improved. This one-day event, held in November 2013 in London and sponsored by AT Kearney and Mesa Medical, consisted of a series of presentations followed by workshops.

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.

Healthcare Reform – Opportunity or Threat? Presentation, Nicolaus Henke, Global Leader of the Healthcare Systems and Services Practice, McKinsey

Nicolaus has unrivaled access to, and experience of, European payors. He examines the reform trajectory and likely budget growth in different European countries and considers what impact this will have for private hospitals, outsourcers and specialist service providers. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.

Interview: Peter Lackner, Director, Uniqa International

Peter Lackner is a board member at Vienna-based pan-European general insurer Uniqa International. Uniqa has over half the €1.7bn Austrian 2011 private medical insurance (PMI) market, with €814m of premiums written in 2011. The company sells PMI in nine of its 16 East European operations. It also owns PremiQaMed, the largest private hospital chain in Austria. We talk with Lackner about the prospects for PMI in the region and Uniqa's country-by-country performance.

The good, the bad and the ugly

The health systems of the OECD have been ranked. The winners: France, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The losers: Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria and the Czech Republic. We talk to Eric N. Tchouaket, principal author of the academic ranking study, to find out what this tells us about these health systems.

IMMAC plans British entry

Healthcare property fund IMMAC Capital with over €1bn under management in Germany and Austria, is scoping out potential deals in the UK, while mulling over entering the Dutch and Belgian markets. We spoke to Immac to find out their thoughts on the market.

Interview: Dr Hasan Kus, Healthcare Business Development President, Anadolu Group

A third of all sales at Anadolu Medical Center (AMC), a JCI accredited hospital in Istanbul with 209 beds which is affiliated to John Hopkins in the USA, now comes from healthcare tourism. Last year foreign patients rose to 5,400. The main hospital is not-for-profit and part of the Anadolu Foundation, owned by Anadolu Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the country, but plans are afoot to put the healthcare tourism arm into a for-profit operation. Anadolu has just constructed a 82 bed on campus hotel to take outpatients and their families and is planning to add outpatient facilities in Romania and other client countries. The campus will also soon boast a University facility for teaching doctors, run by Anadolu Foundation....

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