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Hungary turns to statist, public sector solution

The trajectory of healthcare reform in Hungary is becoming clear. The state will retain ownership and try to rationalise the system without recourse to the private sector. There is talk of a 30%, 100bn HUF cut in the pharmaceutical budget in mid-Feb 2011. But, with Germany and Austria fully opening their borders for the first time on May 1 to foreign workers, it looks too little, too late....
February 11, 2011

Technischer Krankenkasse contracts with Hungarian dentists

Techniker Krankenhasse, the big German krankenkasse, has signed up a range of Hungarian dentists for its insured. TK has pioneered foreign contracts and this is the first time a large German statutory insurer has set up such a contract....
February 1, 2011

Balkans update

There were plenty of straws in the wind at Gastein on what is likely to happen in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Outright privatisation may not be the answer. Expect months of vacillation....
October 11, 2010

Hungarians ready reforms

The new Hungarian government with its reformist Minister of Health, Dr Miklós Szócska, plans to unify the management of all Budapest municipal hospitals. Expect further big changes after the municipal elections are out of the way in early October. That could well include more private involvement....
September 22, 2010

FREE BLOG The swing to the right

European voters have switched to parties and politicians who, they believe, can avoid them ending uu in the mess Greece is now in. That is very good news for the private sector...
July 2, 2010

Diluted cross border care directive on track for 2012-2013

Where has the vexed directive on cross border care got to? When could European patients actually get their right to seek treatment elsewhere recognised as a legal right by their national governments? And what impact will this have on the private sector?...
June 29, 2010

Private public partnerships unlikely to help Eastern Europe

Zywiec, a small Polish town, may well become the first new build and operate PPP in Eastern Europe. But elsewhere hopes that PPP can save Romanian healthcare or that Hungary’s new Fidesz government can deploy PPP look likely to be dashed. Messy privatisation at municipal level looks more likely....
June 29, 2010

Interview: Dr Martin Henrichs, Credit Suisse

We talk to Dr Martin Henrichs, who has covered the healthcare services sector in EMEA for the past 10 years, first for JPMorgan, and since 2007, at Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse, together with RMB/Morgan Stanley, was the joint bookrunner on the IPO of Life Healthcare, the South African hospital chain. The largest-ever healthcare services IPO in the EMEA region, Life Healthcare eventually raised Rand 5.2bn ($683m), less than the Rand 8.04bn originally planned, due to stock market volatility....
June 16, 2010

Hope dawns for Hungary

Triumphant Fidesz has appointed a reformist Minister of Health, Dr Miklós Szócska to reform its near bankrupt healthcare system. Healthcare reform is one of its top priorities. But can Hungary really reform its corrupt system?...
April 28, 2010
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