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Report: Trends and innovations in the elderly care market in Europe

Elderly care groups are expanding into new business models such as the step down market, homecare and domiciliary care to met the needs of Europe’s fast growing elderly population. Here we talk to policymakers, CEOs and academics about innovations and outline the five main trends: the personalisation of care, changes in payers attitude, a shift to homecare, and the emergence of an Eastern European market.
February 5, 2015

IDC-Quiron to manage Mallorca clinic

The IDC-Quiron group, the Spanish hospital chain created in October 2014, has signed an integration and investment agreement with the owners of Rotger Clinic in Palma de Mallorca. The deal, which is not an acquisition, will make IDC-Quiron the biggest private healthcare provider on the island.
February 5, 2015

Technology pushes forward homecare in Spain

Spain’s homecare market is trying to improve service delivery through the integration of technology. We spoke to Pilar Alfonso, healthcare projects director at Ribera Salud, the hospital operator that pioneered the Alzira model in Spain, about the future of homecare.
December 16, 2014

ProA hopes to double its money on Eugin

Clinica Eugin, probably Europe’s largest fertility clinic, is to be sold by private equity house ProA Capital, which hopes to double its money on the 2010 investment.
November 3, 2014

CVC mega merger could be torpedoed

Private equity house CVC’s planned merger of IDC Salud and Quieron to create a €1.5bn sales private hospital gorilla is under threat.
October 31, 2014

Original Alzira model project under threat

The project which gave its name to the Alzira model, in which a private consortium delivers all the healthcare needs of a town for a fixed per capita sum, is in danger of expiring, if the greens and socialists win Valencia in May 2015. Madrid, the other big centre for concessions, is also under threat. Altogether the concessons meet the needs of some 1.5m Spaniards. Elsewhere, electoral prospects look brighter for the right. And what is US Medicaid administrator Centene planning with Ribera, the hospital operator who runs Alzira and eight other concessions, where it took a 50% stake earlier in 2014?
October 23, 2014

Two Spanish dentistry groups reveal expansion plans

Two Spanish dental groups, Dental Company and Dentix, have announced aggressive plans to expand, both nationally and internationally, adding new capacity to what some say is an already increasingly competitive market. DBK, a market research house, said the dental sector's sales grew by 2.4% to €595m in 2013. By Lorena Ruibal.
October 17, 2014

Permira to build new imaging services provider

Private equity house Permira is backing a merger between Mesa Medical, a Pan-European supplier of third party maintenance and used imaging kit, and Asteral, which is the largest provider of managed equipment services around imaging equipment in the UK. The deal will alarm suppliers like Siemens, GE and Philips.
August 1, 2014
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