The French are queuing up to buy Poland’s largest care home operator say several sources. That should put a rocket under the Polish elderly care market.
European countries are undergoing rapid and substantial demographic and technological changes. Yet, healthcare systems are still mainly state-funded and acute-focused, as they have been for the past 70 years. This is starting to change.
Bupa-owned Polish provider Lux Med has bought Euro-Clinic, expanding its imaging diagnostic services to Cracow with its 23rd acquisition in eight years. However, the group has its eyes set on acute. It is currently building the largest private hospital in Poland. We talk to Anna Rulkiewicz, Lux Med's president.
Private operators are throwing weary sighs at the prospect of a majority PIS government in Poland. The new statist, right-wing government has yet to announce the new Minister of Health but the PIS manifesto includes a pledge to regionalise healthcare expenditure, closing the National Health Insurance Fund. Meanwhile, operators are hoping that the new government will deal with a disastrous attempt to get more cancer tests faster.
Bupa-owned Polish provider and insurer Lux Med buys Euro-Clinic. Based in Krakow, Euro-Clinic’s diagnostic laboratories will allow Lux Med to further integrate its service offering.
The first operator PPP hospital in Eastern Europe has finally been signed off and has managed to squeeze a ten year contract out of the Polish Neational Health Insurance Fund. The project for the construction and management of a 275-bed hospital in Żywiec on a 30 year contract was awarded to InterHealth Canada. But it has not been an easy gig.
Which big lab group is up for sale? And which hospital chain has just been withdrawn after a failed auction? We report! Why not subscribe and find out?
Sources are denying that the auction for American Heart of Poland, the Polish heart hospital chain, owned by Advent International, has failed. But the process is taking a very long time. We name the industrial bidders and look at what might be behind the delay.
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