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University clinics prepare to outsource labs

Three to five German university hospitals are set to follow the example set by Uniklinik Aachen and outsource their entire labs to private operators says consultant Dr Peter Borges at Aktiva. That is not surprising. By outsourcing, hospitals can all but halve their lab costs and still keep all the DRGs!...
October 11, 2011

Prospects look bright for UK lab sector

After a hesitant start, it looks as though lab outsourcing will grow in the UK over the next few years. SDS, an Australian group, is one of two companies short-listed for a big contract in Berkshire. We look at how the sector is likely to develop....
October 11, 2011

Interview: Prof Roland Oehlinger, CEO, SeneCura

We talk to Prof Rudolf Oehlinger, chief executive of Senecura, the largest private Austrian care operator with 49 nursing homes. In 2008 took over Senavita, a chain of 15 assisted living homes in Switzerland. It will soon open its first unit in the Czech Republic after a long and careful examination of Eastern Europe....
September 14, 2011

Interview: Andrea Minciarelli, Managing Director, GE Healthcare Financial Services Europe

Are countries and regions changing the way they buy and use imaging and other capitalintensive kit? Andrea Minciarelli heads up at GE Capital’s Healthcare Financial Servicesarm in Europe. A former investment banker with Bank of America and Bank GesellschaftBerlin he joined GE 11 years ago and has worked both at GE Capital and GE Healthcare. He says the recession has brought real change as governments seek to cut costs andrisks. That should lead to an outsourcing boom....
August 4, 2011

Outsourcing is back in the Czech Republic

In principle, they are vigorously opposed to the private sector, but, in practice, the social democrats who control all the Czech regions are looking at outsourcing general hospitals to the private sector through strategic partnerships. Negotiations are under way for the first deal which could be finalised as early as September. A source at Agel, the largest private chain, says it may win a 20 year lease on a hospital at Novy Jicin. Experts think it could be the first of many....
July 14, 2011

A buyers market

Healthcare services is a buyers market today. Victor Chu at consultant Candesic reckons that around half all companies which try to sell are failing to find a buyer. We look at why and what the future holds....
July 13, 2011

What does Portugal’s new government mean for private healthcare?

The right wing social democrats won the Portuguese general election but are reliant on the centrist Christian Democrats for a majority and on agreement with the troika (IMF, EU and European Central Bank) who are financing Portugal’s rescue package. What will the new healthcare strategy look like and what does this all mean for the private sector?...
June 15, 2011

Poles can’t make money

The Polish healthcare market is growing at around 2-3 times the GDP rate and its operators are coming to the stock market on forward EBIT PE multiples of 17. So why are they so bad at making money?...
May 26, 2011

Lab reform slows in the UK

Lab reform in the UK may be rather less radical than was thought 2 months ago. Imperial has pulled its plans to outsource and the East of England is keeping it in the NHS family....
May 13, 2011
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