Slovakia

Slovakia spent €60m testing whole population for COVID-19, the UK plans to spend £43bn

Last weekend the Slovakian government tested its whole population for COVID-19 using rapid antigen tests, spending €60m in the process. That looks cheap compared the £43bn worth of contracts awarded or up-for-grabs in the UK. HBI looks at the winners and the losers.

November 12, 2020

Interview: Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe

Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.

July 21, 2020

HBI Exclusive interview: NMC Health’s acting CEO Michael Davis on the future of the business

NMC acting CEO Michael Davis speaks publicly for the first time about the future of under-fire NMC Health. In this exclusive interview, we ask about a possible sale of all or part of the business, and whether and how NMC might recover from its present position.

July 1, 2020

Ribera Salud CEE head talks to HBI about acquisition and strategy

Spanish hospital PPP operator Ribera Salud acquired its first hospital in CEE late last year, buying the bariatric-focused OB Klinika in Prague through its Slovakian subsidiary Pro Diagnostic Group (PDG). We asked its head of CEE if the acquisition could help it bid for potential privatisations in Czechia.

January 29, 2020

Penta hospital sale looks less likely

The failure of Slovakian opposition parties to build a coalition or push through a bill banning verticalisation in healthcare could make a minority sale of Penta Investments's CEE hospital business PHI less likely.

December 5, 2019

€10bn battle of the labs as Unilabs and Synlab mull 2020 sales

Europe's largest lab groups could both sell in 2020, with Apax appointing Rothschild to explore a sale of Unilabs while Synlab's majority owner Cinven is also weighing up an exit. The sale values including debt could potentially reach €10bn combined.

November 15, 2019

Joseph Priel’s widow to be more hands on with business empire

Ten months after entrepreneur Joseph Priel unexpectedly died, HBI understands that Edna Priel, his wife, has started to be increasingly hands on with the management of the family's assets and investments in Croatia, Hungary and Romania.

October 24, 2019

Exclusive: Change at the top at Unilabs

Jos Lamers, 55, the man widely seen as the architect of modern-day Unilabs is moving away from a full-time role at the Pan-European lab and imaging platform, HBI can exclusively reveal. So what lies behind the move and who succeeds him as CEO?

October 14, 2019

Penta courts investors

HBI can exclusively reveal that multi-national CEE hospital chain Penta has started meeting with investors with a view to selling at least a minority stake, months after it denied the company was for sale. It tells HBI that it wants a partner who can support international expansion plans.

October 3, 2019

Investor behind Slovakia’s biggest imaging group plans CEE expansion

The investment firm that sold Slovakia's largest imaging operator to Ribera Salud in 2018 has substantial expansion plans in three big CEE markets, its senior managing partner tells HBI.

August 29, 2019

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