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Interview: Peter Lackner, Director, Uniqa International

Peter Lackner is a board member at Vienna-based pan-European general insurer Uniqa International. Uniqa has over half the €1.7bn Austrian 2011 private medical insurance (PMI) market, with €814m of premiums written in 2011. The company sells PMI in nine of its 16 East European operations. It also owns PremiQaMed, the largest private hospital chain in Austria. We talk with Lackner about the prospects for PMI in the region and Uniqa's country-by-country performance.
October 3, 2012

New CEO at Euromedic

Big imaging services provider Euromedic International has appointed Dimitris Moulavasilis as its new CEO, following the departure earlier in 2012 of Richard di Benedetto. A CFO has yet to be announced, but has been selected.
September 25, 2012

The good, the bad and the ugly

The health systems of the OECD have been ranked. The winners: France, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The losers: Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria and the Czech Republic. We talk to Eric N. Tchouaket, principal author of the academic ranking study, to find out what this tells us about these health systems.
June 29, 2012

Private individuals shoulder healthcare burden

OECD figures for the early years of the recession show individuals paying more out-of-pocket (OOP) and on private medical insurance (PMI) as growth in public expenditure slowed to a halt. But statistics are often uncertain - DG Ecofin and the IMF disagreed publicly on stats for country healthcare spending at a recent conference.
June 28, 2012

EU shifts towards private sector finance

There has been a major shift in thinking at the European Union and the World Health Organisation in the last three years, says David Boyd, head of European Government and Public Policy at GE Healthcare. He points out that at Davos, John Dalli, commissioner of DG Sanco, talked of "smart finance" and he says that there is a growing acceptance at EU and national levels for the need to look for new forms of non-governmental finance to help provide much needed healthcare infrastructure....
February 7, 2012

Interview: Václav Jirkù, Investment Director, Penta Investments

Václav Jirkù is in charge of healthcare investment strategy at Penta Investments which is the most active private equity investor in healthcare services across Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the Visegrad 4 countries, as well as looking at the wider East European market. So where does he spot opportunities in healthcare services over the next five years?...
November 25, 2011

Interview: George Commander, CEO, InterHealth Canada

InterHealth Canada specialises in integrated healthcare PPPs. In other words, it builds the facility and then manages the delivery of healthcare on long-term contracts. We talk to George Commander, a civil engineer by profession, about InterHealth’s recent contract win in Poland, where it is to run the first integrated PPP hospital for the next 30 years. What are the opportunities for this model in Eastern Europe?...
October 13, 2011

Interview: Karen Prosser, EC Harris, Partner, Health sector

Karen started her career as a radiographer in the British NHS before joining Siemens and then moving into consultancy with EC Harris, the international built asset consultancy. The practice works with both public and private sector organisations to assist in delivering best value for money from their health facilities. This not only includes development of new buildings but also assesses how facilities are managed over the long term, including looking at delivery of cleaning and catering services.....
September 23, 2011

Report: Care homes in Eastern Europe

If the differences between East and West Europe are big in hospitals, in the care home sector they are often a gaping chasm. Apart from Slovenia, the private sector remains all but non-existent or in fragmented into mom’n’pop businesses across the region. But changes are coming, as countries start to open the sector to private investors and start to restructure hospitals, which often contain many of the infirm elderly, who would be in care homes in the West.
September 19, 2011

Whitbread launches European healthcare procurement cooperative

Martin Whitbread, former Credit Suisse healthcare services analyst, has launched Proceur, a group purchasing organisation for the European healthcare industry. He says the aim is to help hospitals and other operators procure smarter. It's a big market - Whitbread claims that Europe's hospitals alone spend $170bn on drugs, medtech and other consumables....
September 16, 2011
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