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Interview: Martin Swegmark, CEO, Purch

Procurement remains an area where healthcare providers can make substantial savings. Swedish-based Purch has started benchmarking prices across Europe, and works for the public sector in Norway and Sweden and for private players in seven countries. CEO Martin Swegmark joined what became the hospital chain Capio in 1998 and later spent a long time at the lab group Unilabs where he was involved in procurement projects where they achieved Pan-European pricing contracts from suppliers.
November 21, 2014

Merger creates new Finnish giant

Finnish dentistry-to-elderly care player Mediverkko and acute care-to-elderly care group Mehilainen are to merge to create a group with sales of €400m in 2014. We talk to the new CEO Mediverkko’s Janne Jarvenpaa.
November 20, 2014

FREE BLOG A split Right spells hard times for private healthcare

The rise of far right, anti-EU, anti-immigrant, anti-free trade parties in Europe is splitting the Right/Centrist vote, making it much easier for the parties of the Left to win elections. This has nasty implications for private healthcare services in countries like Sweden, the UK and Finland – the three countries where private equity-backed healthcare has really taken off.
October 16, 2014

Eurocept buys Medizorg and tries to re-invent homecare

Eurocept, the Dutch pharmaceutical and home care company backed by private equity house GIMV, is to buy medicalised homecare group Medizorg to create a group with sales of €300m with Benelux and Pan-Nordic ambitions. We talk to Eurocept CEO, Mike van Woensel about homecare business models.
September 30, 2014

Doctagon merger creates new doctor to domiciliary care service

Doctagon, the innovative Finnish home care service has merged its home doctor services with domiciliary care provider Kodinavux to form Stella. The deal means that Doctagon can offer patients everything from home diagnosis from a doctor through to cleaning and childcare. Private equity house Intera Partner is taking an 80% stake in Stella.
July 7, 2014

Laastari looks to Europe

The Finnish equivalent to the US walk-in Minuteclinic concept is looking to expand into the UK and Germany. So three years after we first looked at Laastari Lähiklinikka, what has been its track record?
June 27, 2014

Report: Dentistry in Europe

Web-empowered, patient choice, the retreat of state payors, internationalization - what is happening in dentistry will happen in other healthcare service sectors soon. So it is a sector that is worth watching closely. In this, the first part of a 2 part report, we look at how dentistry markets in Europe are changing, look at business models and track consolidation, naming the major players country-by-country. How is the market set to change?
May 22, 2014

Dentistry platforms fetch high prices

Carlyle, the owners of IDH, the big UK dentistry group, plans to sell or float the group for as much as £1bn. Meanwhile, the largest Finnish dentistry group is subject to a bid and the two largest Scandinavian dentistry chains have just merged. What is the attraction?
May 14, 2014

Interview: Kustaa Piha, CEO and Founder, Med Group

Kustaa, 35, founded Med Group in 2008 and claims it is now Finland’s largest player in ambulances and homecare. EBITDA came to ¢4.5m on sales of €39m in 2013 and sales should rise 28% to €50m in 2014. He explains the focus behind a company which has everything from ambulances to homecare and from dentistry to primary care, outlines Med Group’s new homecare concept and talks about how reform is likely to open up the Finnish market.
April 15, 2014
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