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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.

Medicover buys Indinet

Medicover, the Pan-East European subscription healthcare business has bought InviMed, a chain of IVF clinics in Poland....

The East/West split in lab procurement

The big suppliers to private lab groups are offering Pan-East European deals but they are sticking their heels in in Western Europe. And big national price differences remain according to Vincent Marcel, the CFO of Labco and Philippe Ballero, CEO of Synevo, speaking at the Healthcare Europa conference....

EMC raises money and predicts more Polish hospital privatisation

Polish hospital privatisation group EMC has successfully raised €2.3m to expand its geriatric hospital at Katowice. Chief executive Piotr Gerber expects large scale privatisation over the next two years, but says there is no visible pipeline today....

Will Polish PMI market soar?

The Polish private health insurance market is tiny, but set to become a huge part of the country’s healthcare system, according to pan-European insurer Signal Iduna, as new laws are passed. But Signal still reckons that “under the table” payments are 150 times larger than the healthcare insurance market and 15 times the size of the subscription market!...

EU shifts towards private sector finance

There has been a major shift in thinking at the European Union and the World Health Organisation in the last three years, says David Boyd, head of European Government and Public Policy at GE Healthcare. He points out that at Davos, John Dalli, commissioner of DG Sanco, talked of "smart finance" and he says that there is a growing acceptance at EU and national levels for the need to look for new forms of non-governmental finance to help provide much needed healthcare infrastructure....

Private operators get funding for Polish elderly care

Continuum Care, the pioneering Warsaw-based domiciliary care company, run by former Medicover CEO, Agneszka Szpara, will open its first outpatient clinic in the city in March 2012. This will also be the company’s first step into the public healthcare system with reimbursement from the Polish National Health Fund. She says the government is considering expanding publicly funded care for the elderly....

Interview: Václav Jirkù, Investment Director, Penta Investments

Václav Jirkù is in charge of healthcare investment strategy at Penta Investments which is the most active private equity investor in healthcare services across Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the Visegrad 4 countries, as well as looking at the wider East European market. So where does he spot opportunities in healthcare services over the next five years?...

Polish deal pipeline looks full

A minority stake in one of the leading Polish hospital privatisation groups is for sale, a cardiology group is also likely to go under the hammer, as well as a Cracow based hospital chain....

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