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Private poacher Batelson turns public gamekeeper

Who’d have thought it? The former CEO of Capio, the international private hospital chain has just been made chairman of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, the largest and most prestigious university hospital in the Nordic region. Batelson says that university hospitals, like business schools, are now competing internationally for patients, staff and budgets.
February 28, 2014

Investor takes a €100m write off at Aleris

Investor AB has written down its investment in Aleris, the big Scandinavian health and care group by 900m SEK (€100m). In total Investor has put 5.4bn SEK into Aleris. So what has gone wrong?
February 28, 2014

Attendo may IPO

Swedish media reports that big elderly care group Attendo, owned by IK Invest, may float on the Stockholm stock market. Is this likely?
January 20, 2014

Medical Properties plans more deals in Europe

Medical Properties Trust (MPT), the US healthcare REIT specialising in hospital property, is scouring Northern and Western Europe for deals, following its purchase of the property portfolio of RHM Kliniken. We take a look at its strategy.
November 20, 2013

Interview: Dag Andersson, CEO, Diaverum

With close to 300 dialysis centres in 19 countries, Diaverum's Dag Andersson claims to run “the most global healthcare service in the world”. The company is majority-owned by private equity house Bridgepoint, which hired JP Morgan in January 2013 to review the company's strategic options. We speak to Andersson about Diaverum's future.
November 18, 2013

New boss for Unilabs

Jos Lamers, former CEO of Nucletron, has replaced Jean-Paul Rigaudeau as CEO of Unilabs, the international lab and imaging chain. Lamers nearly took the same position at imaging group Euromedic a year ago.
October 14, 2013

Danish primary care market to open in 2014

Denmark is set to massively liberalise its primary care sector. This comes after a ground-breaking primary and outpatient care contract, worth DKK 200m (€26.82m) per annum, was successfully tendered by the Sjaelland region in May 2013 and won by Aleris. Is Denmark set to follow Sweden in creating an active role for the private sector? Falck thinks so: the emergency services and clinic provider has just acquired medical recruitment company Skandinavisk Halsovard. We talk to CEO of Falck’s healthcare services division Jan Steenhard, Skandinavisk’s continuing Director Borje Eriksson and former Global Health Partner and Capio CEO Per Batelson.
September 27, 2013
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