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Interview: Sara Hurlimann, Co-CEO, Zahnarztzentrum.ch

Zahnarztzentrum.ch is revolutionising Swiss dentistry with big city centre outlets open 7.00 to 20.00 hours, 365 days a year. The group, founded in 2003, has recently opened in Sweden and has €15m of private equity backing from Paris-based G Square. We talk about tooth life expectancy, why Hurlimann doesn’t rate public payor dentists and how big Zahnarztzentrum.ch can get....
March 13, 2012

Romania: Back to the drawing board

Expect an interlude of a year before any major reforms are unveiled in Romania. January saw the president withdraw his controversial plans to introduce a Dutch model with competing insurers buying services. That followed a week of riots. Last week the Minister of Health said that he did not expect any new reforms to see the light until 2013. Conveniently, that kicks them down the road after this autumn’s elections....
March 8, 2012

Even in Spain consumer driven elective surgery can grow

Clinica Baviera shows that even in Spain, even in 2011, it is possible to grow a private healthcare business. The listed ophthalmology to aesthetic surgery group saw like for sales rise, despite the downturn....
February 24, 2012

President withdraws healthcare reforms

President Traian Basescu has withdrawn his entire plans for radical healthcare reform in Romania. This was prompted by big street demonstrations following the resignation of Raed Arafat, one of the Secretaries of State for Health and the author of a popular and effective national emergency service, which Arafat claimed would have been threatened by the new package....
January 13, 2012

Interview: Bradley Gould, managing director, Prospitalia

How is procurement changing in Europe? What are the real price differences? We talk to Bradley Gould, managing director at Prospitalia, one of the two largest German group purchasing organisations (GPO), which also has recently opened operations in Austria and the Netherlands...
January 5, 2012

Gilde makes two investments

Private equity specialist Gilde Healthcare has invested in the Dutch occupational healthcare and physiotherapy markets with two recent deals. We talk to Jasper Van Gorp. ...
December 16, 2011

Europe looks to professionalise procurement

Other European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand are likely to outsource public sector healthcare procurement in a similar way to England where a project run by DHL should save the English NHS between £800m and £1bn in the decade to 2016. Other privately owned procurement players, backed by 10 tonne gorillas like Hospital Corporation of America, are also emerging....
December 13, 2011

New homecare model goes international

Buurtzorg, the largest and fastest-growing homecare company in the Netherlands, is expanding into Sweden, with plans for further moves across Europe. Sales will come to €130m in 2011 up from €80m in 2010. Its model, based on giving nurses the power to manage each branch as if it were their own business, is backed by a powerful IT system linked into the public sector system. We talk to majority owner Edwin Oude Middendorp....
November 25, 2011
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