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Attendo may IPO

Swedish media reports that big elderly care group Attendo, owned by IK Invest, may float on the Stockholm stock market. Is this likely?
January 20, 2014

Capita counts itself out at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

The largest tenders in the history of the English NHS, for community services in Peterborough and Cambridge - worth £750m and over £1bn, respectively - may fail. Capita, the big outsourcing group, which was bidding with private hospital group Circle Health, has pulled out of the bidding, alleging that the price demanded by the NHS is 25% too low. We look at the numbers, and at the chances for more functional outsourcing of hospitals.
October 31, 2013

Croat Masterplan spells opportunity

Croatia is restructuring public healthcare following its entry into the EU. The private healthcare sector, which has been hammered over the past three years, stands to gain as insurers pile in to a new market for supplementary insurance - 18 insurers have signed up to launch products so far in 2013. We talk to Ivan Svajger, CEO of public general hospital Zabok, and Branimir Curic, Chief Medical Officer at private specialist clinic Akromion, to find out more.
October 18, 2013

FREE BLOG Finding public pressure points

Could recruitment be a way into public healthcare systems for private providers? Falck has bet on peripheral services - ambulance provision and recruitment - as a way to build relationships with Nordic healthcare systems. Can providers elsewhere do the same?
September 27, 2013

Madrid hospital tendering process suspended

The functional outsourcing of six large hospitals in Madrid - where contracts were won by Sanitas, Hima and Ribera Salud - has been suspended and referred to the Court of Justice. The Socialist party is claiming that the process by which the contracts were awarded was not transparent.
July 19, 2013

Interview: Stuart Fletcher, Chief Executive, Bupa

A year after Stuart “international growth opportunity” Fletcher took on the top job, where is he taking Bupa? The not-for-profit group offers insurance, hospitals, nursing homes, homecare and chronic disease management across the world. We talk to Fletcher about its recently-released results for 2012.
March 13, 2013

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.
February 8, 2013

Russia turns to private sector to deliver public healthcare

The Russian federal government is pushing for more involvement of private operators in the delivery of statutory healthcare. The first tender for the functional privatisation of a public hospital and for private provision of ambulance services, both in Moscow, will go out this year. Meanwhile, as private healthcare grows at 12-15% per annum, providers are expanding beyond Moscow and thinking of new payment mechanisms.
January 31, 2013

German nursing shortage will lead to pay rises

How bad is the German nurse shortage? Franz Wagner, CEO of the German Nursing Association and Director at the WHO, reckons that the nursing shortages are so bad as to have led to the collapse of the recruitment sector!  He expects pay to rise fast.
January 14, 2013

Another facilities management company moves into soft outsourcing

Interserve, a construction and support services company quoted in the UK, has bought home healthcare provider Advantage Healthcare for £26.5m from Rutland Partners. The company already has sales of £300m in 2012 from the healthcare sector through facilities management. The move follows competitor MITIE’s purchase of domiciliary care provider Enara for £110.8m in October. We talk to Interserve director Robin O’Kelly to find out more.
January 3, 2013
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