The non-medicalised homecare services market in the Netherlands could be set for rapid expansion, following a decision by the Dutch Ministry of Health to standardise and limit co-payments to municipalities.
Domiciliary homecare is regarded with much scepticism by private equity and many large nursing home groups. How do you build quality? How do you compete with mom'n'pops? But some groups are definitely building scale internationally.
France-based international care giant Orpea continues to establish a foothold in the Dutch healthcare market, with the acquisition of nursing home chain Dagelijks Leven. Healthcare Europa speaks to a Paris-based consultant following Orpea, and Dutch adviser, to find out more.
We hear that the Dutch government has reached agreement to move to a value health model with healthcare budgets frozen from 2021 onwards. A fund of €425m has been set up to enable the change, much of which will be spent on digital health solutions.
A dutch digital start up is now serving 100,000 patients in its own home market and has expanded to four other countries. It claimed to cut healthcare costs for its patients by 65% at the HIMSS 2018 conference.
Could pan-European lab player Unilabs be looking to consolidate the Dutch diagnostic market? It recently completed the purchase of Medlon, a laboratory with a workforce of around 450 employees. We speak to an advisor who thinks this might just lead to further consolidation of an unusual market.
The CEO of the Netherlands’ largest ambulatory clinic has quickly scotched rumours of a sale, as he tells Healthcare Europa the group is looking to expand at home and abroad, move into a new field, and is planning a possible IPO.
What impact will digital health, in all its forms, have on the shape and size of the private health care sector? We talk to Dr. Kaindl, who reckons the winners are likely to be the big for-profit groups.
Overall activity in Western Europe's healthcare property market dropped last year. Though things were busier in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, transactions were down in France, Germany and Belgium.
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