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Even in Spain consumer driven elective surgery can grow

Clinica Baviera shows that even in Spain, even in 2011, it is possible to grow a private healthcare business. The listed ophthalmology to aesthetic surgery group saw like for sales rise, despite the downturn....

Interview: Bradley Gould, managing director, Prospitalia

How is procurement changing in Europe? What are the real price differences? We talk to Bradley Gould, managing director at Prospitalia, one of the two largest German group purchasing organisations (GPO), which also has recently opened operations in Austria and the Netherlands...

Dussmann enters sterilisation market

Dussmann, the big German outsourcing company which includes Kursana, one of the largest German care home groups has moved into medical sterilisation with the acquisition of a majority of Steritalia from Tecnosanimed....

Ameos to sell soon

Ameos, the German hospital and psychiatry operator, is about to be sold to private equity....

Whitbread launches European healthcare procurement cooperative

Martin Whitbread, former Credit Suisse healthcare services analyst, has launched Proceur, a group purchasing organisation for the European healthcare industry. He says the aim is to help hospitals and other operators procure smarter. It's a big market - Whitbread claims that Europe's hospitals alone spend $170bn on drugs, medtech and other consumables....

Interview: Prof Roland Oehlinger, CEO, SeneCura

We talk to Prof Rudolf Oehlinger, chief executive of Senecura, the largest private Austrian care operator with 49 nursing homes. In 2008 took over Senavita, a chain of 15 assisted living homes in Switzerland. It will soon open its first unit in the Czech Republic after a long and careful examination of Eastern Europe....

SeneCura enters Czech Republic

SeneCura, the big Austrian Swiss nursing home operator, is the first Western nursing home group to target the huge, latent market for elderly care in Eastern Europe. It plans to open a nursing home and a separate assisted living unit in the Czech Republic in the next six months. We talk to chief executive Rudolf Oehlinger about the challenge....

Private sector locked out of acute

The acute sector in Austria remains closed to private investors, but there is a vibrant reha and nursing home industry. We give an overview and identify the leading players....

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