A single Dutch buying agency for nursing homes looks likely says consultant Willem Koelewijn at Koelewijn Zorg. The move should lead to a more informed central buyer with a greater appreciation of care quality.
Eurocept, the Dutch pharmaceutical and home care company backed by private equity house GIMV, is to buy medicalised homecare group Medizorg to create a group with sales of €300m with Benelux and Pan-Nordic ambitions. We talk to Eurocept CEO, Mike van Woensel about homecare business models.
Gilde Equity Management has bought Fa-Med, the largest Dutch medical factoring outfit from Waterland. We reveal profitability and talk to Fa-Med CEO Henk de Jong.
Mediq, the Advent-owned, international medicalised homecare, distributor and Dutch pharmacy chain has confirmed that it has launched a strategic review of the business. We name the division our sources say will be sold and look at recent management changes.
Buurtzorg, the Dutch foundation which is Europe’s fastest growing homecare operator, made a loss of €500,000 in 2013 on sales of €220m, thanks to insurers refusing to pay €9.5m bills. 2015 could also be a difficult year. we talk to Buurtzorg CEO Jos de Blok.
A hundred of the 300 private clinics in the Netherlands will go bust as they lose out to foundation hospitals in getting contracts from insurers, says Hans Maarse, professor of health policy analysis at Maastricht University. ZKN, the association of independent clinics in the Netherlands, has confirmed this.
Web-empowered, patient choice, the retreat of state payors, internationalization - what is happening in dentistry will happen in other healthcare service sectors soon. So it is a sector that is worth watching closely. In this, the first part of a 2 part report, we look at how dentistry markets in Europe are changing, look at business models and track consolidation, naming the major players country-by-country. How is the market set to change?
Carlyle, the owners of IDH, the big UK dentistry group, plans to sell or float the group for as much as £1bn. Meanwhile, the largest Finnish dentistry group is subject to a bid and the two largest Scandinavian dentistry chains have just merged. What is the attraction?
The Dutch government’s plans to allow foundation hospitals to pay dividends to investors has been shelved. A report on Slotervaartziekenhuis, one of just four Dutch hospitals to be privatised, is likely to be enough to bury such measures for the next 3-4 years.
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