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German ambulance market opens

The €2.8bn German ambulance market is up for grabs following a 2010 European court ruling. Falck, the largest private provider of ambulance services in the world, reports that it is seeing big opportunities in the country following the decision banning German municipality's practice of handing no-bid contracts to favoured not-for-profits.
November 9, 2012

Italian PPP market to grow at 25% CAGR

Whole public hospital departments are being outsourced to the private sector. Elsewhere, we should see big growth in smaller PPP projects throughout Italy.
October 3, 2012

Interview: Valerie Michie, managing director of healthcare services, Serco

How much and how far will the different NHSs in the UK go in outsourcing services to the private sector?  We talk to Valerie Michie, managing director of health services at Serco, which is running a pioneering community care project in Suffolk. Analysts reckon Serco has more than doubled its healthcare outsourcing since 2011, when it claimed a 5% share of a £2 billion market in health support services to the NHS in the UK. That market that is expected to double by 2015.
September 21, 2012

Spain and Italy improve payment terms to providers

Most Spanish regions are now paying healthcare service providers in 60-90 days. Even in Italy, the situation is improving, with troubled healthcare region Lazio pioneering a web portal that makes debt securitisation much easier.
September 21, 2012

Lab outsourcing pushed in Sweden

Hospitals should seriously consider outsourcing their labs says a new report, Konkurrens inom laboratorietjänster, from the Swedish Competition Authority. Could this lead to a lab outsourcing boom?
June 29, 2012

Will South East London be outsourced to the private sector?

The UK Department of Health is threatening to bring an administrator in to run the South East London NHS trust, which is losing £1 million a week. Will the private sector be involved in its rescue? If so, this could signal a big opportunity. Around 30 other acute and foundation trusts are at financial risk, of which half can't be easily merged with neighbouring public sector organisations. That leaves 15 which could be functionally privatised. So, what will the government do?
June 27, 2012

Irish outsourcing hopes fade

Hopes that Ireland may outsource €45m of family doctor (GP) diagnostic lab tests any time soon look wide of the mark, as the public sector responds and government reforms move towards a trust structure.
June 15, 2012

Denmark mulls MRI outsourcing

Despite a lurch to the left with its new government, Denmark looks set to outsource more healthcare services, particularly MRI, despite attacking private hospitals.
May 30, 2012
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