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Interview: Mark Hellowell, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Hellowell is a healthcare academic who specialises in PPPs, evaluating their performance around the world, consulting with development agencies and acting as a special adviser to the Health Select Committee in the British House of Commons. He also lectures on healthcare reform to a diverse group of postgraduate students, many of them from developing countries. We talk to him about the role private healthcare companies can, and are, playing in the developing and developed worlds, the future for PPPs, and whether they are “a good thing”.
January 23, 2014

Report: Healthcare procurement – low status, fragmented, impotent. So what is the solution?

We report from Healthcare Procurement Europe, the first pan-European forum to bring together procurement professionals, suppliers and policymakers to look at how procurement in Europe could be improved. This one-day event, held in November 2013 in London and sponsored by AT Kearney and Mesa Medical, consisted of a series of presentations followed by workshops.
December 6, 2013

Vitaldent to hit Poland

Vitaldent, the big family-owned dentistry chain operating across Spain and Italy, has taken out a €100m loan with Intermediate Capital Group. The group plans to grow sales nearly 50% over the next five years to €650m. It plans to do this, in part, by entering Poland. We talk to Vitaldent adviser Reiner Loeslein about strategy and business models.
December 6, 2013

Korian/Medica merger to create new care giant

Europe's - and, by some measures, the world’s - largest nursing home group, with pro-forma 2012 sales of €2.2bn, 57,000 beds and 600 units, has been formed by the planned merger of French giants Medica and Korian. What are the real synergies between the companies, and what will be the merged group’s strategy? We take a look, while Korian CEO Yann Coleou, who will be the CEO of the merged group, is speaking at the annual Healthcare Europa conference on March 13, 2014.
November 18, 2013

San Donato keeps it in the family

What will happen to San Donato, Italy’s largest hospital chain, following the death of Professor Giuseppe Rotelli? The founder and architect of the group died aged 68 in the Summer of this year. The business is still entirely owned by the Rotelli family.
October 29, 2013

Italian procurement remains divided

New, more efficient ways of healthcare procurement are being resisted by the fractious regional politics of Italy. There is still a highly fragmented system for procurement, despite growing pressure on the healthcare budget. We speak with Gabriella Racca of the University of Turin to find out more.
July 9, 2013

Report: Italian reforms and cuts – An overview

The new Italian Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, seems ready to end the Italian health system in its current form. As she said to parliamentary panel this month: “The time of ‘everything for everyone’ is over.” Further cuts are scheduled across the system, while patient co-payments are pushing more customers into the private sector. We talk to observers and players in Italy to find out about the expanding role of co-insurance, and where the opportunities are now.
June 21, 2013
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