Hungary

 

Visualising the crisis in homecare staff

The ratio between nurses and personal carers and populations over 65 tells you a lot about a country's ability to provide adequate homecare. Here we track the number for eight OECD countries. Overall the ratio has dropped.
August 29, 2019

Bridgepoint “exploring” €2bn sale/IPO of Diaverum

As first reported by HBI, dialysis group Diaverum looks certain to be sold by Bridgepoint. Reuters now suggests that Diaverum is "exploring" and "testing the appetite" for a €2bn sale of the global dialysis group Diaverum. We go through potential buyers.
August 1, 2019

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO, Diaverum 

Will international dialysis group Diaverum IPO or sell? We catch up with its new CEO, the former boss of international imaging group Affidea. Rarely have we met such an enthusiastic leader. That may be just as well. Many wonder whether Diaverum, which has been owned by private equity house Bridgepoint since 2007, can ever be sexed up enough to attract a top price. If anyone can achieve this, it is Moulavasilis. 
July 3, 2019

Medlife has money to spend in CEE

Listed Romanian healthcare group Medlife says it has €20m to spend on new acquisitions in Romania and Hungary. Although it and for-sale competitor Regina Maria have both completed large domestic deals in the past month, the internationalisation effort probably highlights that most good assets in Romania have now been bought.
June 13, 2019

Magnificent seven plan to consolidate Hungarian healthcare

We talk to Dr Lajos Fabian, chairman of MedAlliance Holding, a grouping of seven investors which has been busy buying healthcare providers in the fragmented Hungarian healthcare market through its buy-and-build platform Tritonlife, which it launched in late 2018. The aim is to replicate the achievements of Medigroup in Serbia and Regina Maria in Romania with eventual sale or IPO, but not for at least 5-7 years.
March 14, 2019

Romania’s largest healthcare group looks abroad

Listed Romanian healthcare group Medlife is looking to neighbouring countries for expansion, says its CEO. We analyse the opportunity in the four that he singled out, each of which is ripe for consolidation.
December 19, 2018

Joseph Priel dies

The most successful health care entrepreneur in central and eastern Europe has died aged just 65. What was this formidable man like and what does this mean for his many ventures?
December 19, 2018

Interview: Gyorgy Leitner, President, Private Healthcare Association of Hungary

Healthcare Europa talks to Gyorgy Leitner, president of the Private Healthcare Association of Hungary (Primus), which is composed of the dozen largest operators in the country's small but fast-growing private healthcare sector. We discuss acute care in Hungary, and find out more about the market and climate for M&A.
October 11, 2018

Interview: Giuseppe Recchi, CEO, Affidea

Healthcare Europa speaks to Giuseppe Recchi, CEO of pan-European advanced diagnostic imaging specialist Affidea, to find out about the company’s foray into outpatient care, the state of AI, and plans for the future.
September 27, 2018
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