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Ribon sets up new healthcare fund

Denis Ribon,former global head of healthcare at 3i, has set up a new business Archimed to invest in healthcare services, medtech and pharma in Western Europe.
March 28, 2014

Opportunities in East Europe

A panel at Healthcare Europa looked at what opportunities were opening up in the three of the largest East European markets - Russia, Poland and Romania. We report.
March 28, 2014

German privatisation goes down not-for-profit route

Not-for-profit German hospital group SRH is celebrating winning a contest to privatise three municipal hospitals with sales of €100m in Sigmaringen. We find out why Helios, Rhoen and Asklepios did not even make the Sigmaringen short list and what this tells us about privatisation prospects.
March 28, 2014

FREE BLOG NHS = British Leyland?

In the autumn of 2013 Lord Warner, a labour member in the House of Lords, described the NHS as similar to British Leyland, the state-owned car manufacturer, which went bankrupt costing the tax payer billions of pounds and the loss of 1m jobs in the Midlands. So, I was interested to find myself talking to a manager who moved to the NHS, and then into private healthcare, after starting his career, at, yes, BL!
March 28, 2014

Sana might buy Rhoen or Asklepios

Sana Klinken, the third largest German private hospital group, has explicitly stated that it would like to buy Rhoen Klinikum or Asklepios. This in order to better compete with Fresenius’s Helios subsidiary, which following its acquisition of most of Rhoen’s hospitals, now has sales of over €5.5bn a year making it twice the size of its nearest competitor Asklepios.
March 28, 2014

HM goes national

HM Hospitales, formerly known as Hospitales de Madrid, is set to make its first foray out of the capital with the purchase of Grupo Hospitalario Modelo in La Corunna, Galicia. The deal means that there are now four private chains vying to build national chains in Spain led by Quiron, closely followed by IDCSalud and […]
March 27, 2014

Centene set to buy Ribera Salud

Centene, the US Medicaid specialist, is set to buy Spanish hospital Ribera Salud, the company behind the pioneering Alzira model in which a consortium of private operators run primary and secondary care for the public payor for a region of 250,000-300,000 people. It plans to then export Alzira to countries as varied as Latin America, the UK and even North America.
March 27, 2014

Care tourism in Bulgaria

Would several hundred elderly Brits and Germans want to live and be cared for in Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast? Daniel Lorer and his wife think the answer to that question is yes and their business Orenda (motto: Healthcare by the sea) is looking for a strategic partner.
March 27, 2014

NHS hospitals start outsourcing labs

Lab chain Labco has just won a contract worth £250m over ten years from two English NHS hospital foundation trusts. The NHS has a notoriously inefficient diagnostic lab sector - do these deals mean that finally we will see the growth of lab outsourcing in England?
March 27, 2014

Going nuts for Spire

Six private equity houses are in the running to buy Spire, the second largest UK private hospital chain. which is being sold by Cinven. So what is the attraction and why might they pay £1.8bn for the business?
March 26, 2014
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