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Mediq starts strategic review

Mediq, the Advent-owned, international medicalised homecare, distributor and Dutch pharmacy chain has confirmed that it has launched a strategic review of the business. We name the division our sources say will be sold and look at recent management changes.
September 12, 2014

Buurtzorg battered as insurers refuse to pay

Buurtzorg, the Dutch foundation which is Europe’s fastest growing homecare operator, made a loss of €500,000 in 2013 on sales of €220m, thanks to insurers refusing to pay €9.5m bills. 2015 could also be a difficult year. we talk to Buurtzorg CEO Jos de Blok.
August 4, 2014

Palamon sells Prospitalia

Palamon has sold its 2007 stake in Prospitalia, the largest German procurement hub, for three times its initial investment.
July 17, 2014

A third of Dutch private clinics will be forced to close

A hundred of the 300 private clinics in the Netherlands will go bust as they lose out to foundation hospitals in getting contracts from insurers, says Hans Maarse, professor of health policy analysis at Maastricht University. ZKN, the association of independent clinics in the Netherlands, has confirmed this.
June 13, 2014

Report: Dentistry in Europe

Web-empowered, patient choice, the retreat of state payors, internationalization - what is happening in dentistry will happen in other healthcare service sectors soon. So it is a sector that is worth watching closely. In this, the first part of a 2 part report, we look at how dentistry markets in Europe are changing, look at business models and track consolidation, naming the major players country-by-country. How is the market set to change?
May 22, 2014

Dentistry platforms fetch high prices

Carlyle, the owners of IDH, the big UK dentistry group, plans to sell or float the group for as much as £1bn. Meanwhile, the largest Finnish dentistry group is subject to a bid and the two largest Scandinavian dentistry chains have just merged. What is the attraction?
May 14, 2014

Scandal hits Dutch private hospital

The Dutch government’s plans to allow foundation hospitals to pay dividends to investors has been shelved. A report on Slotervaartziekenhuis, one of just four Dutch hospitals to be privatised, is likely to be enough to bury such measures for the next 3-4 years.
May 1, 2014

WMO spells all change for Dutch elderly care

“It is the biggest reform in Dutch healthcare since 1963” says Bernadet Naber, spokeswoman at Actiz, the association which represents the Dutch nursing home sector. A new so-called WMO law, discussed in parliament this week, would give domiciliary care and day centres to local government, put medicalised homecare in the hands of the healthcare insurers and lead to a massive reduction in beds in the Dutch nursing home sector, as length of stay drops from over 2 years to closer to one year.
April 23, 2014

Norlandia buys Dutch kindergarten group

Norlandia, the nursing home, childcare and hospital hotel business, that is majority-owned by Norwegian property developers, the Adolfsen brothers, has made its first acquisition out of the Nordic region, with the purchase of KindeX, the Dutch childcare group. We talk to CEO Hilde-Britt Mellbye.
April 1, 2014

Oaktree to launch Pan-European dentistry player

Asset management group Oaktree Capital Management plans to grow a pan-European dentistry group, according to our sources who say it has ambitious sales targets. The group has already made its first acquisition.
March 20, 2014
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