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Beacon goes for knockdown price

Irish businessman Denis O’Brien has purchased Beacon Hospital in Dublin Ulsterbank, part of the British RBS bank. We look at the price and the prospects for the sector in Ireland as the government published a white paper on its planned introduction of universal healthcare.
April 25, 2014

Ukrainian lab overview

After several years of 30% plus growth, the diagnostic lab market in Ukraine has been hit by the crisis.
April 25, 2014

WMO spells all change for Dutch elderly care

“It is the biggest reform in Dutch healthcare since 1963” says Bernadet Naber, spokeswoman at Actiz, the association which represents the Dutch nursing home sector. A new so-called WMO law, discussed in parliament this week, would give domiciliary care and day centres to local government, put medicalised homecare in the hands of the healthcare insurers and lead to a massive reduction in beds in the Dutch nursing home sector, as length of stay drops from over 2 years to closer to one year.
April 23, 2014

Fresenius set to scoop up European lab group

Dialysis group Fresenius MC is starting due diligence to buy a large European lab group, say two sources. The move would enable Fresenius to build a new leg alongside its dialysis business, which faltered in 2013.
April 23, 2014

FREE BLOG The Big Push

The French hospital sector is set to consolidate on a massive scale. There are lessons for other countries here, too.
April 17, 2014

What are the prospects for nursing homes in Eastern Europe?

Batipart, the big property group which is a big investor in Korian, is quietly exploring the East European care home market with Senior Group, a small company ran out of Paris by Nicolai Kobliakov. We talk to him about demand for private beds in East Europe and his plans to launch an invasion of prefabricated cottages for the elderly in France. Kobliakov spoke at a recent session at property conference MIPIM arranged by Stephan Pichon, the healthcare proerty expert at Your Care Consult in Paris.
April 16, 2014

Synlab says nein to Amedes

Amedes is claiming a massive hike in its EBITDA, following its acquisition of Medivision, but talks with Synlab have failed to come to anything.
April 16, 2014

DomusVi goes to second round and announces Chinese venture

DomusVi, the big French nursing home group, has attracted four bids in the second round of its sale. Meanwhile CEO Jean-Francois Vitoux has come back from China with big plans to follow Orpea into the market for elderly care with a new joint venture, Duomel.
April 16, 2014
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