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Report: Can assisted living work in Europe?

Everyone is familiar with the idea of a retirement village, but they are relative newcomers in any form to Europe and the common perception first popularised in 1950s America is out-dated. Then retirement meant receiving the proverbial gold watch at 65 and moving somewhere cheaper, joining a like-minded community with a golf course, often somewhere with better weather. Some developments became towns in their own right. Arizona’s Sun City has 62,000 residents. Today over 5% of those 65+ live in dedicated retirement communities.
August 21, 2015

Cygnet buys Alpha Hospitals for £95m

Private equity firm C & C Alpha Group (CCAG) has sold Alpha Hospitals to Cygnet Healthcare for £95m, as rumour spreads that another mental health provider will sell in the coming weeks.
August 21, 2015

FREE BLOG Your two retirements…

How does assisted living fit into elderly care? Adam Scott, at consultancy Mansfield Advisors, reckons many elderly go through two retirements. The first at 60 plus is a continuation of your middle-aged lifestyle. The second in your mid to late seventies, perhaps after illness, is closer to your children. This is where most assisted living options play.
July 17, 2015

FREE BLOG Is it ever worth running a hospital for a government?

The idea that the private sector, thanks to its efficiency and management skills, can build and run a public hospital, or manage an existing public hospital, is beguiling. It is also increasingly clear that it is a bird which never flies.
July 8, 2015

Interview: Stefan Larsson, Senior Partner, BCG

Worldwide, Stefan Larsson foresees a strong move in healthcare away from fee for service, in which quality is not measured and rewarded, to a system which measures and rewards outcomes. He thinks that model will apply across acute, elderly and chronic care. But how real is the shift? Here we talk to Larsson about examples of operators who have seen significant growth and about how payors are about to shift away from DRGs. He is a Co-founder of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a not-for-profit devoted to the development of global standards for measurement of health outcomes that matter to patients.
July 8, 2015

Report: Great Eggspectations – Europe’s Fertility Market

Fertility is emerging as an important and very international market sector with several European groups enjoying sales of over €100m. In a 4,500 word report, HCE Journalist Lee Murray takes a look at this market across a range of regulated and free markets in Europe to discover prices, patient journeys, market consolidation and just how far people are willing to travel for the chance at a baby.
June 26, 2015

The PMI sector needs to grow say healthcare industry experts

Industry leaders at the UK Private Healthcare Summit 2015 said hospitals should work in closer collaboration with insurance companies. However, there has been no growth in the PMI sector in 2014. Insurers such as Bupa are trying to find new ways to sell premiums.
June 26, 2015

Mediclinic reverses strategy and swoops on Spire

Mediclinic, the big South African hospital operator, has snapped up a 29.9% stake in Spire, the UK’s second largest hospital group for £432m. The move which might have pre-empted US buyers, surprised analysts, who said that as recently as February 2015, Mediclinic management was saying it had no plans to invest in mature, developed markets. Shares in Mediclinic at ZAR 10,317 are up just 3% on the announcement of the deal. Meanwhile, talks between Netcare, the largest South African group and Mater Private, the second largest Irish player, have collapsed.
June 26, 2015

Mediclinic reverses strategy and swoops on Spire

Mediclinic, the big South African hospital operator, has snapped up a 29.9% stake in Spire, the UK’s second largest hospital group for £432m. The move surprised analysts, who said that as recently as February 2015, Mediclinic management was saying it had no plans to invest in mature, developed markets. Shares in Mediclinic at ZAR 10,317 are up just 3% on the announcement of the deal. Meanwhile, talks between Netcare, the largest South African group and Mater Private, the second largest Irish player, have collapsed.
June 24, 2015

Property in Poland?

Surveyors are starting to push Poland as a possible market for healthcare property deals.
June 4, 2015
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