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New homecare model goes international

Buurtzorg, the largest and fastest-growing homecare company in the Netherlands, is expanding into Sweden, with plans for further moves across Europe. Sales will come to €130m in 2011 up from €80m in 2010. Its model, based on giving nurses the power to manage each branch as if it were their own business, is backed by a powerful IT system linked into the public sector system. We talk to majority owner Edwin Oude Middendorp....

IHH to buy Acibadem and float

Integrated Healthcare Holdings Sdn Bhd is planning an initial public offering that may raise $2 billion following its acquisition of Acibadem, the premier Turkish hospital chain. Investment bank sources told Healthcare Europa that the IPO is likely to value IHH at $7-8bn....

A sixth of Bulgaria’s nurses leave in 2010

Some 5,000 nurses have left Bulgaria this year, according to Renate Indjova, a former prime minister who now runs Tokuda, the big Japanese owned hospital in Sofia. That is a sixth of the workforce....

Medicalised homecare companies roll out in Europe

Companies which provide medical care at home are expanding fast across Europe. Healthcare at Home, the UK market leader in the provision of medicalised homecare with forecast 2010 sales of £800m, plans to open in Italy next year. It set up in Germany in 2008. Dutch rival Apotheek Zorg is already active in Germany and Switzerland and plans to obtain a local presence in every Western European country....

FREE BLOG Is it worth looking over the border?

To the European Health Policy Group, a group of academics and policymakers who meet regularly to compare European healthcare systems. But do these comparisons actually count for anything? Do they change anything?...

Bulgaria is getting better!

Long seen as a complete no go zone for investors, Bulgaria appears to be powering ahead with healthcare reforms including the closure of a third of all hospital capacity....

FREE BLOG WHITHER healthcare tourism?

I talked recently to a private equity investor who said he did not really believe in healthcare tourism. Well, I can understand scepticism at all the hype, but it does exist and it will start growing fast in Europe again in a year or so...

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