Data is the key to winning doctors and dentists over to the views of private equity investors - and fast - says Jamie Wyatt, partner and head of healthcare at the private equity investor Bridgepoint.
The number of elderly people in Europe is rising to unprecedented levels. In the last 15 years, the number of people aged 80 and above in Europe has risen by 60% - and in Western European countries like Germany and Italy, it's even more. With this has come a rapidly rising need for more care, and a growing group of patients with chronic illnesses. HBI 2017 explored the major trends in elderly healthcare for the region – and looked ahead to how operators will need to change their approach.
The award-winning New Psychiatric Hospital (GAPS) in Denmark claims to turn the waffle of patient centricity into bricks and mortar. Healthcare Europa asks Søren Daugbjerg, CEO of Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, one of the practices behind the project, about his take on hospital design - and asks whether there is any evidence that the design of a hospital can actually improve a patient's health.
With nearly 10% operating margin, Sweden’s largest elderly care services provider Attendo reports a good 2016 performance and sees its shareholders’ dividends more than double. But the results also highlight challenges in the outsourcing market and the group reports poor organic growth.
IK Investment Partners, a private equity group with Nordic roots, has reached an agreement to sell its Nordic dental group, Colosseum Smile, to the Swiss fund Jacobs Holding AG.
The pan-European group, Capio, which runs hospitals, rehab, outpatient centres and care homes across four countries, has bought a primary care outfit in western Sweden, and Denmark’s second largest private hospital group. We spoke to Capio’s CEO Thomas Berglund.
The long-term CEO Allan Søgaard Larsen and deputy CEO of Falck, the mammoth international ambulance, clinics and fire service group, both quit just before Christmas 2016. Larsen without permanent replacements. What is going on?
Free healthcare is drowning under the recent wave of public spending cuts in Europe. Prospects for improvement in some countries seem slim – particularly when faced with an ageing population of increasingly chronically ill citizens. Is there a solution? Could management by the private sector or outright privatisation provide the magic solution that will introduce gains in efficiency […]
As reported by Healthcare Europa in June 2016, IK Investment Partners is selling Scandinavian dentist Colosseum Dental, the second largest in the region. There are at least eight bidders involved in the process, mainly private equity houses. But the deal could also attract operator interest.
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