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Schoen Klinik bidding for Priory Group

HBI understands German psychiatric operator Schoen Klinik is looking to buy Priory Group, the UK's largest psychiatric provider by revenue. The German contender would be a good fit for the company which has been on the block for almost a year. We talk to a market expert to find out more.

Filling an empty shift at short notice: disrupting agencies

Temporary agencies are expensive. Hiring a doctor through one in the UK can cost the NHS around €170 per shift and in Germany, the bill for a nurse comes in at anywhere between €70-€140. A handful of start-ups across Europe are deploying solutions to disrupt agencies and breakdown workforce silos. HBI looks at three - in the UK, France and Germany - to assess how the market is changing.

Interview: Stefan Klussmann, co-founder of Planerio

Poor scheduling, especially in DRG funded models, can be financially devastating if it leads to closed facilities and wasted patient appointments. What solutions are available to the market? HBI speaks to the founder of one automated scheduling solution, Planerio, about keeping MRIs running through M&A, complying with the law and Germany's workforce shortage.

German hospital meltdown will see new privatisation surge

The dire state of the German hospital sector is likely to see 50 bankruptcies in 2020, of which half could be privatised. German banks are getting jittery about the billions of euros they have lent to now loss-making hospitals.

FREE BLOG Why German nursing home operators won’t be rattled by a single regulation

The first month of 2020 has already seen a couple of deals go through in Germany's most competitive healthcare market. Even a new regulation which came into force in September last year which stipulated that at least 80% of rooms in all facilities must be singles appears not to be dampening market enthusiasm for already established homes. Why is it so buoyant?

MedEuropa enters French market

Pan-European radiotherapy group MedEuropa has entered the French market by acquiring a radiotherapy clinic on the site of an Elsan hospital. HBI speaks to CEO Ralph Hefti.

Troubled public sector could open opportunities for German hospitals

Ameos, Germany's largest for-profit psychiatric provider by revenue, is bidding for a non-profit university hospital in Saxony-Arnhalt, northwestern Germany, alongside SRH Kliniken, a top-ten for-profit hospital group. We hear publicly-owned hospitals are in trouble and this could open up opportunities for the private sector across the country.

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