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Aedifica buys Dutch care homes

The Belgian REIT, Aedifica, has paid Dutch nursing home operator, Domus Magnus, €30m for four nursing homes. Aedifica’s first acquisition in Holland was driven by strong yields and the potential to fund the growth of a market consolidator. We investigate.
March 11, 2016

Competitors angry at Buurtzorg takeover

Dutch nurse-led homecare group Buurtzorg has volunteered to the Ministry of Health to take over domiciliary care/medicalised homecare TSN Thuiszorg. TSN, which is the largest group in the country, is in lenders' hands due to a €400m cutback in the public-private homecare sector. Buurtzorg has committed to admit 75% of TSN's staff in exchange for a favourable €21 hourly tariff. The deal would automatically leave Buurtzorg as the market leader, but competitors tell us that that they are angry.
February 10, 2016

Interview gives insight into the Dutch private clinic market

In a far-reaching interview with a leading financial daily, Bart Malenstein, the young CEO of Bergman Clinics, the largest Dutch private clinic group, reveals the pressures faced by the private clinic sector in the Netherlands. He even goes so far as to say that "more than once" he toyed with the idea of shutting the door and not coming back. He refused to reveal 2014 results which have yet to be published. But he says that Bergman has reached an agreement with Rabobank.
January 28, 2016

Bergman still in talks with bank

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.
January 21, 2016

Measuring quality outcomes: the next frontier for competition?

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.
November 30, 2015

Burtzoorg CEO Jos de Blok takes on big four Dutch insurers

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?
November 24, 2015

Gimv invests €12.5m to expand Equipe Zorgbedrijven

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.
November 10, 2015

Report: Reforming healthcare – trends and trajectories

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.
November 4, 2015

Trouble at MC Groep Lelystad cardiology department

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.
October 16, 2015

G Square sells Swiss dentist and buys a Dutch one

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.
July 23, 2015
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