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Will Dutch reintroduce law allowing external investors?

The Dutch government has withdrawn legislation which would have allowed external investors to take dividends from not for profit hospital foundations and other healthcare service bodies. So when is it going to be reintroduced?

Van Gelder to quit Mediq

Marc van Gelder, the 52-year-old CEO of Mediq, the international distributor and direct-to-consumer medicalised homecare player, is to step down little more than a year after private equity house Advent took the group private for €775m in early 2013. His replacement has yet to be found.

German healthcare tourism streaks ahead

Germany treated 224,000 foreign patients in 2012. But how many flew to Germany for treatment, as opposed to being sick holiday-makers? How do the numbers compare to the UK and other European countries? And how many are treated in the private sector? One thing is sure: Russia is Germany’s largest market today.

Interview: Henk de Jong, CEO, Fa-Med

Will a pan-European market in medical factoring develop? Will we even see statutory pan-European healthcare insurers? We talk to Henk de Jong, CEO of Fa-Med, the largest medical factoring group in the Netherlands - and, probably, in Europe - which is looking at Germany, Poland and Switzerland. Fa-Med has been owned by Waterland private equity for over a decade. Henk is a delegate at the Healthcare Europa conference on March 13, 2014 in London.

Interview: Philipp Jan Flach, Director, MC Groep

MC Groep, after taking control of a general hospital group in 2008, has just bought privatised hospital Slotervaart Ziekenhuis. This adds to its existing operation Stichting Ijsselmeerziekenhuizen, more than doubling its scale. Healthcare Europa estimates that, all together, MC generates sales of around €250m a year. We talk to Director Philipp Jan Flach about the MC model, the group’s plans and how he sees the Dutch market. Flach, a medical doctor, spent seven years at Bain before joining MC Groep in 2009.

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