After more than six months Bergman Clinics, the largest Dutch private clinic chain, is still in talks with its lender Rabobank after ambitious expansion plans went awry.
Private health and care would be transformed if quality could be measured accurately in a way that patients could really understand. If measured, quality would then soar. And the sterile European private versus public debate would fade out as payers focused on quality outcomes and patient choice.
Jos de Blok, CEO of the Dutch homecare group Buurtzorg, has announced that he will enter the statutory health insurance market in 2017 with lauch details on December 6. Four big insurers - Achmea, VGZ, CZ and Menzis – have 90% of the market. Sources say there have been no successful new entries for 34 years. Could Jos de Blok break the curse?
Private equity house Gimv has bought a minority stake in Equipe Zorgbedrijven, a Dutch outpatient clinic chain. Gimv, which has also invested in French hospital chain Almaviva Santé, will be running the expansion alongside CEO Jak Dekker and two of the founding surgeons. We talk to Gimv's healthcare specialist Elderd Land.
European countries are undergoing rapid and substantial demographic and technological changes. Yet, healthcare systems are still mainly state-funded and acute-focused, as they have been for the past 70 years. This is starting to change.
All four of the cardiologists at MC Groep’s Lelystad hospital are absent from work following an unpopular move to outsource cardiology work to rival chain Cardio Centra Nederlands. MC is the largest (well, actually the only) hospital privatisation group in the country.
The auction of Zahnartzentrum, the largest Swiss private dentistry chain has ended with management buying back the minority stake held by private equity house G Square, the only private equity house to specialise solely in investing in healthcare services across Europe. Meanwhile, G Square has just bought a substantial stake in a very similar business in the Netherlands.
Fertility is emerging as an important and very international market sector with several European groups enjoying sales of over €100m. In a 4,500 word report, HCE Journalist Lee Murray takes a look at this market across a range of regulated and free markets in Europe to discover prices, patient journeys, market consolidation and just how far people are willing to travel for the chance at a baby.
Belgian healthcare real estate investment trust Cofinimmo has tripled its investments in Germany with the purchase and leaseback of two high-end wellness and sport centres from the Aspria Group. We speak to Cofinimmo CEO, Jean-Edouard Carbonnelle about the deal.
Since the relaxation of China’s one child policy in November 2013, IVF demand has shot up. German IVF chain, VivaNeo has entered the market. We talk to Christian Mayer, general manager at VivaNeo, about the deal and the Chinese market. We are publishing a detailed survey of the IVF sector in Healthcare Europa this month.
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