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S&P downgrades GHG property debt

Standard and Poor’s has downgraded UK hospital group GHG’s property debt. But what does this really mean? How does this affect BMI, the hospital operations company (OpCo) renting from the GHG PropCo, and Netcare, the owner of 51% of both companies?
January 4, 2013

Icade Sante raises more money

Healthcare property is all the rage with French institutional investors. Icade has just raised €110m for its Icade Santé fund, hot on the heels of a €500m sale-and-leaseback hospital deal.
November 29, 2012

EXCLUSIVE: Euromedic Chairman and CEO step down

The chairman and chief executive of Euromedic, the pan-European imaging service provider, have both resigned. This comes after Montagu Investments and Ares Management bought out ownership partner BAML. We look at why the split happened, and what it could mean.
July 13, 2012

Scott to depart from Priory Group

CEO of the Priory Group Phillip Scott is to step down almost immediately. The Priory, bought by Advent International for £925m in January 2011, is the UK's largest private operator of secure and mental health services, running a total of 3,355 beds at 60 facilities.
July 13, 2012

South London NHS Healthcare Trust: The game-changer

Expect fast progress and private sector involvement in the restructuring of the failed South East London hospital trust. An administrator is about to be appointed, and a shortlist of consultancies to advise on and plan the way forward has been drawn up. The government wants action to be taken by April 2013.
July 4, 2012

A touch of damp at Helios

Rumours are flying that Fresenius Helios is seeking to get €80m back from Dr Walter Wuebben for Damp Gruppe, the North German hospital chain it purchased in the autumn of 2011. Fresenius Helios declined to comment and Dr Wuebben did not return our calls. Meanwhile, a messy labour dispute with a Damp subsidiary is starting to affect patient intake at some Damp units.
July 3, 2012

Payment by results saves Stockholm 17%

The cost of hip and knee replacement operations has dropped by an average of 17% for Stockholm County in Sweden. This is thanks to a new bundled payment system that has replaced DRGs. Even while reducing costs, this new system earns high patient approval and has cut waiting lists. We take a look at how it works ahead of its roll-out in the rest of the country.
June 27, 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
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