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Interview: Anna Herkmen, Eastern Europe Supervisor, Acibadem

Largest Turkish hospital group Acibadem is making a big play for international patients in the Balkans. The company is 75%-owned by Malaysian investment fund Khazanah Nasional and listed operator IHH Healthcare, and 25%-owned by the founding Aydinlar family. Acibadem runs 16 hospitals and nine outpatient clinics in Turkey, and owns 50.7% of Sistina hospital in Macedonia. The group is looking particularly hard at Romania, where 1,000 patients travelled to Acibadem for treatment in 2012. We talk to Anna Herkmen, head of Acibadem’s efforts in East Europe, to find out more.

Al Noor makes troubled offering

Abu Dhabi-based hospital and clinic operator Al Noor has listed on the London Stock Exchange. The group runs three hospitals, two satellite clinics offering a mix of ambulatory and overnight beds and a family care clinic. Al Noor earned EBITDA of around US$70m on sales of $324.4m, for a net profit of $60.5m in 2012. This is up 11% from 2011 sales of $292.9m, with net profit up 19% from $50.8m. The group has a 35% share of Abu Dhabi’s private outpatient market and 39% share of its inpatient market. So how did the float go?

MediGroup is Serbia’s first big chain

Blue Sea Capital has made a third acquisition in Serbia ahead of the launch of MediGroup, the first big branded healthcare chain in the country.

Falck starts clinic chain in Russia

Danish emergency services and clinic provider Falck is moving into Russia. In mid-July, the company will open a clinic in Vladivostock with 15 overnight beds, employing 125 staff and offering a range of mostly low-acuity elective surgery.

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, Chief Executive, Euromedic

How are players dependent on a shrinking public purse in South and East Europe reacting? Who better to ask than Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO of Euromedic? The company offers imaging, labs and oncology services in 15 countries, from Ireland and Portugal in the West to Russia and Turkey in the East.

Report: The UK market for healthcare services outsourcing

The real opportunity over the next two years for the private sector in the UK will be outsourcing community nursing and the functional privatisation of community hospitals, according to PWC. Organisations that can deliver integrated care packages, from community to acute services, will also see opportunities. The market for functional privitisation of acute general hospitals, however, will be limited in the short term.

RHM buys Heinrich Mann clinic

Waterland-owned RHM Kliniken has acquired the Heinrich Mann clinic as part of its buy-and-build strategy. We look at how the rehabilitation and specialist nursing home group is developing.

Bridgepoint set to sell Terveystalo

Informed sources say that Finnish operator Terveystalo, one of the two largest players in the sector, is being put up for sale by private equity owner Bridgepoint. The company provides corporate wellness and occupational health services, outpatient clinics, medicalised homecare and inpatient hospitals across the country. Both Bridgepoint and Terveystalo declined to comment.

Global Health Partner’s second chance

The business model was ambitious: build a chain of holistic clinics across the world, each focused on a particular condition, and then demonstrate that you are the national best for back pain, orthopaedics or complex dentistry. But Swedish group Global Health Partner has conspicuously failed to deliver, with an EBIT loss after write-downs of SEK 50m on sales of SEK 138m in the first nine months of 2012. The share price halved over the year. We look at whether new CEO Marianne Dicander Alexandersson can turn it around.

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