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Healthcare Reform – Opportunity or Threat? Presentation, Nicolaus Henke, Global Leader of the Healthcare Systems and Services Practice, McKinsey

Nicolaus has unrivaled access to, and experience of, European payors. He examines the reform trajectory and likely budget growth in different European countries and considers what impact this will have for private hospitals, outsourcers and specialist service providers. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.

RHM buys Heinrich Mann clinic

Waterland-owned RHM Kliniken has acquired the Heinrich Mann clinic as part of its buy-and-build strategy. We look at how the rehabilitation and specialist nursing home group is developing.

Bergman plans massive growth

Bergman Clinics, the largest private ambulatory clinic chain in the Netherlands, plans to grow 2012 sales of €70m nearly four times to €250m by 2016. The group, owned by the Malenstein family and entrepreneur Jaap Maljers, is looking for an external investor to take a minority stake. We talk to Chief Executive Bart Malenstein and give an overview of the Dutch private clinic market.

Buurtzorg falters in Sweden

Innovative Dutch medical homecare provider Buurtzorg has entered Sweden - and hit a series of problems that demonstrate just how hard it is in Europe to export winning business models.

Report: Psychiatry: The private sector expands across Europe

Across Europe, a nascent private sector is expanding into psychiatric care provision for the continent’s public payors. But with all major markets still stuck in the economic doldrums, are they fighting for a shrinking slice of the pie? Healthcare Europa takes a look at select markets to see how far private operators are making inroads into mental healthcare.

Dutch primary groups to merge

By far the largest for-profit primary care group in the Netherlands is to be created. Dutch private equity investor NPM Healthcare is merging its Arts en Zorg chain with ZorgPunt, owned by insurer Menzis and private equity house Reggeborgh. The combined group will have 150,000 patients. So, how is primary care delivery set to change?

Psychiatry moves towards payment by results in the Netherlands

Dutch insurers like Menzis are pushing hard for the implementation of patient monitoring systems, threatening 5% tariff cuts if targets aren’t met. This is after a 10% cut - equal to €600 million - to the country’s psychiatry budget this year, potentially resulting in the loss of 9,000 jobs in the sector and reduced capacity to treat patients, according to the GGZ, which represents the providers in this entirely private market segment. The insurers are pushing for payment by results.

Interview: Jaap Dijkman, CEO, Medial-Atal

We talk to Jaap Dijkman, who will take over as CEO of Medial-Atal from October 2012. The newly-merged group is now the largest diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands, with forecast 2012 sales of €60 million.

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