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Labco comes to market at last

French lab group Labco has released its prospectus and is expected to IPO in the first half of 2015 - our sources say May is most likely. It expects to raise €320 million from the deal. Investors will be attracted by solid EBITDA margins of 18.4% on revenue of €650m in 2014 – calculated on a pro forma basis to include earnings of recent acquisition SDN Group. But the highly regulated lab market presents substantial challenges.
April 17, 2015

Australia’s largest radiotherapy provider GenesisCare expands to Europe

GenesisCare, Australia’s largest private provider of radiotherapy, is expanding to Europe, a source close to the group has confirmed. Fellow Aussie, Ramsay Health Care has announced two of its hospitals in Southern England will now provide radiotherapy services using GenesisCare.
April 17, 2015

UK demand for mental health services bodes well for Priory

Priory, the UK’s largest private operator of secure and mental health services, increased sales 8% in 2014. With mental health getting more awareness in the UK and NHS waiting time standards introduced as of April 1st 2015, Priory looks to be in a strong position. But with Labour creeping ahead in the polls ahead of the UK general election in May, could Ed Miliband’s 5% private profit cap hurt it? We investigate.
April 2, 2015

Miliband lobs 5% profit cap bombshell at private sector

Labour leader, Ed Miliband, the man most likely to be the next UK prime minister, has said that clinical service providers would face a 5% cap on profits on deals with the NHS. There is now a very strong probability that the UK, like Sweden, may end up with a leftist coalition, as the right fragments. We look at the implications.
March 30, 2015

European healthcare property market grew by 33% in 2014

The European sale and leaseback healthcare property market grew by 33% in 2014, a new study by Your Care Consult reveals. We speak to Stéphane Pichon, managing director at Your Care, about the market and its prospects.
March 5, 2015

Interview: David Batchelor, Executive Director, Specialist Markets, CBRE

In the last six months there has been a transformation in investors in healthcare property in the UK and Europe. David looks at a new breed of player who is emerging and at how investors are now looking at southern Europe. Advisor CBRE has been very active in the European property sector, representing Waterland and RHM in their sale and leaseback of the property portfolio of German reha players RHM Kliniken to Medical Properties Trust,
March 2, 2015

Move to community-based care looks risky for patients and operators

What impact will the Bubb report have on private operators? The government report, The Time for Change, published in late 2014 recommended that individuals with learning disabilities should be transferred from institutional settings to smaller houses in the community. We speak to private operators and consultants about the implications of this shift.
February 19, 2015
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