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Will the oil price crash hurt Gulf healthcare?

Despite crude more than halving in price, healthcare services are set to grow fast in the Arab oil states (the Gulf Cooperation Council). That reflects the introduction of mandatory health insurance, the rise of chronic disease and a growing population. We investigate.
January 20, 2015

French groups create new healthcare insurance giant

A new player in the French complementary health insurer market with nearly a fifth of the market and covering 11m customers is to be created by the merger of two mutual insurers. The move heralds the creation of a chain of 348 outpatient health centres. Healthcare Europa talks to the directeur-generale of one of the merging groups.
January 16, 2015

Interview: Franceso Longo, director, CERGAS

Professor Longo is a long-term analyst of the Italian NHS and the private sector. Here he predicts a boom for the private sector in all forms of post-acute care, explains why he expects private medical insurance to grow steeply and looks at how the private sector is acquiring not-for-profit operators.
January 15, 2015

Public and private health insurers to battle it out in South Africa

South Africa is bracing for a face-off between the government and private insurers over its fractured healthcare market. The government wants to bring all South Africans under a universal health insurance scheme, but the policy has suffered numerous delays. Now private insurers want to release their own rival policies, but this calls for a change of law. Healthcare Nova spoke to Dr Michael Thiede, founder of Scenarium Group, a healthcare and social protection policy consultancy.
January 8, 2015

Finnish insurer to slash costs with new chain of outpatient centres

Finnish insurer Pohjola wants to revolutionise private healthcare by opening a chain of wholly-owned outpatient centres, which will cover ambulatory surgery, diagnostics and specialist consultations. Pohjola’s head of health and well-being, Harri Aho claims that, based on the first Helsinki facility, the new stream-lined business model will halve treatment times against national averages. He says other insurers will follow. We investigate.
November 28, 2014

Report: An Irish regulatory rainbow after the recent storms?

Planned regulatory changes in Ireland should see 1m more people take out private medical insurance, based on the impact of similar legislation in the Netherlands and Australia. This should improve performance after the private sector over-expanded in the early Noughties and suffered badly in the recent recession. Equity investment in existing providers now starts to make sense. Recent transactions this year have included the sale of The Beacon and the attempted sale of Mount Carmel Hospital by Adam Scott and Jean Redmond of Mansfield Advisors LLP.
November 3, 2014

Interview: Anna Rulkiewicz, President of the Management Board at LUX MED

LUX MED, recently bought by Bupa, the international healthcare group, is the largest Polish private healthcare operator with five small hospitals, 161 owned outpatient facilities and about 1,600 subcontracted centres located across Poland. The company had sales of €208m in 2013 and is in the middle of an ambitious expansion plan with the aim of making the group the largest private national inpatient chain. We talk to Anna Rulkiewicz, CEO at LUX MED, about the Polish market and LUX MED’s recent and future acquisitions. With a background in sales and marketing Credit Suisse, Zurich and Commercial Union she joined LUX MED in 2002 as sales and marketing director.
September 22, 2014

Bupa acquisitions on track, CEO tells Healthcare Europa

Bupa’s £1.6bn, 18 month-long M&A orgy is paying off, says CEO Stuart Fletcher. Announcing first half 2014 results for the international insurer and healthcare provider, he claimed: “Acquisitions are inline with our expectations.” But the UK remains tricky. Bupa is pruning its UK care home network and the amount of PMI bought by individuals continues to fall.
August 8, 2014
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