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Valencia set to outsource

The public healthcare sector in Valencia is preparing to outsource a very wide range of non-medical services, according to Luis Barcia at Tich Consulting. He says that other Spanish regions are now urgently looking at adopting the Valencia Alzira model.
May 30, 2012

Limbach faces resistance to new plans

The highly secretive Labor Limbach group is attempting to centralise control under its new acting CEO Juergen Schwietzer. This has led to resistance.
May 30, 2012

European healthcare fund plans abandoned

British real estate investment firm MedicX has indefinitely postponed plans to create a first European fund. German-Dutch fund manager Euro Ejendomme has decided to abandon healthcare altogether. We talk to the companies to find out why - and whether this bodes poorly for the healthcare real estate market.
May 15, 2012

English NHS lab outsourcing grows

The pipeline of new lab outsourcing deals from the English NHS continues to grow. Meanwhile, Synlab has entered the market with the appointment of Hugh Risebrow, formerly at the Serco GSTS JV as joint chairman of Synlab UK.
May 4, 2012

Bioatriki weathers storm

Bioiatriki seems to be weathering the storm in Greece. Owner Dr Evangelos Spanos has high hopes that the hospital sector will start to outsource. Meanwhile he is looking to Iraq.
April 26, 2012

Interview: Professor Juhani Lehto, Professor of social and health policy at University of Tampere, Finland

What happened to healthcare in Finland in 1991? Very few European economies have gone through the sort of deep recession which has now engulfed so much of southern Europe. Finland is the exception - after the collapse of communism it lost its position as middleman between East and West and saw GDP fall 13% between 1991 and 1994. What happened to healthcare services tells us a lot about what may happen now in countries from Ireland to Greece. We talk to academic and policy maker Prof Juhani Lehto about the impact.
April 25, 2012

Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?

Set up a business in July 2011 with a medtech product, buy a small UK ambulance business, IPO on the Frankfurt stock market in October and then make more acquisitions through bond issues. Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?...
January 10, 2012

Europe looks to professionalise procurement

Other European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand are likely to outsource public sector healthcare procurement in a similar way to England where a project run by DHL should save the English NHS between £800m and £1bn in the decade to 2016. Other privately owned procurement players, backed by 10 tonne gorillas like Hospital Corporation of America, are also emerging....
December 13, 2011

Dussmann enters sterilisation market

Dussmann, the big German outsourcing company which includes Kursana, one of the largest German care home groups has moved into medical sterilisation with the acquisition of a majority of Steritalia from Tecnosanimed....
December 6, 2011

Crisis for Swedish nursing homes

Stockholm council has decided to temporarily halt further outsourcing of care homes to private contractors, following newspaper coverage of problems at a Carema Care owned care home, Koppargarden, which has hit national headlines. Our sources say that other councils across Sweden may follow suit. The situation is also likely to impact private rival Attendo, which is for sale....
November 18, 2011
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