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PCZ plans move to Warsaw Stock Exchange

PCZ Holdings is planning a move from NewConnect to the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The holding company owns PCZ Polish Medical Group, which includes a pharmaceutical distribution arm, four hospitals, six clinics, ambulance services and a diagnostic laboratory. It currently serves 400,000 patients, and made PLN 17m (€4.1m) in sales in the first half of 2012, a growth of 23% from 2011.

Interview: Dr Andrzej Sokolowski, director, Polish Association of Private Hospitals

In Poland, public hospitals that have been ‘part-privatised’ into social enterprises pose a serious threat to the for-profit sector. Dr. Andrzej Sokolowski, director of the Polish Association of Private Hospitals, says that the private sector is hanging its hopes on a long-promised law on private medical insurance (PMI).

Interview: Peter Lackner, Director, Uniqa International

Peter Lackner is a board member at Vienna-based pan-European general insurer Uniqa International. Uniqa has over half the €1.7bn Austrian 2011 private medical insurance (PMI) market, with €814m of premiums written in 2011. The company sells PMI in nine of its 16 East European operations. It also owns PremiQaMed, the largest private hospital chain in Austria. We talk with Lackner about the prospects for PMI in the region and Uniqa's country-by-country performance.

New CEO at Euromedic

Big imaging services provider Euromedic International has appointed Dimitris Moulavasilis as its new CEO, following the departure earlier in 2012 of Richard di Benedetto. A CFO has yet to be announced, but has been selected.

Innova plans obs and gynae chain

Polish public-sector healthcare continues to open up to private equity, as Innova Capital buys gynecological and obstetric hospital Ujastek in Cracow.

Polish privatisation in 2013

Hospitals in Poland which run into debt will be forced to become limited companies by the end of 2012. Around 220 or 30% of the 740 have debts. During 2013 the government and municipalities will either close them, invest or privatise these units. So what are the prospects for the private sector?

Why Polish private healthcare should soar

The Polish healthcare system is getting ready for two big reforms: changes to private insurance and the institution of a new data-monitoring system. Both seek to tackle rising costs, but the outcome is likely to be good for the PLN 30 billion (€7 billion) private healthcare sector. We talk to Paweł Magdziarz of Polish healthcare business management consultancy Formedis to find out more.

New cancer centre for Romania

What is claimed to be the first specialised private cancer hospital in Romania has just opened in Brasov. We talk to the doctor behind the project, Aurel Tudose.

New draft law for Polish healthcare insurance

Together with the Ministry of Health, the national association of private health insurers in Poland has drafted a complete law which would massively increase the use of private healthcare insurance. What are its main provisions?

Limbach faces resistance to new plans

The highly secretive Labor Limbach group is attempting to centralise control under its new acting CEO Juergen Schwietzer. This has led to resistance.

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