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Interview: Mark Hellowell, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Hellowell is a healthcare academic who specialises in PPPs, evaluating their performance around the world, consulting with development agencies and acting as a special adviser to the Health Select Committee in the British House of Commons. He also lectures on healthcare reform to a diverse group of postgraduate students, many of them from developing countries. We talk to him about the role private healthcare companies can, and are, playing in the developing and developed worlds, the future for PPPs, and whether they are “a good thing”.
January 23, 2014

Report: Healthcare procurement – low status, fragmented, impotent. So what is the solution?

We report from Healthcare Procurement Europe, the first pan-European forum to bring together procurement professionals, suppliers and policymakers to look at how procurement in Europe could be improved. This one-day event, held in November 2013 in London and sponsored by AT Kearney and Mesa Medical, consisted of a series of presentations followed by workshops.
December 6, 2013

Report: Will big medtech follow Medtronic into services?

Will big medtech follow the IBM path from product supplier to service provider? No other medtech company has expanded as fast as Medtronic into services. Here, we look at what the company offers, as well as its plans for the future. We also talk to one of its new customers, and look at how far the big imaging groups are willing and ready to move into the service arena. What impact will this have on existing service providers?
November 5, 2013

FREE BLOG A sea change in attitudes to procurement

The English NHS, like all healthcare systems, doesn’t procure well. Part of the problem has historically been physician preference, where hospital procurement chiefs say that they are finally seeing a sea change in attitudes among doctors.
October 31, 2013

Hip and knee replacements down in Germany

Despite the huge rise in the elderly and the obese, volumes in hip and knee replacement surgery have dropped off steeply in Germany. So says Bradley Gould, CEO of Prospitalia, the big procurement hub backed by Palamon Capital Partners. An investment analyst agrees, while a recent OECD report, to the contrary, highlights just how much Germans love going under the knife.
October 16, 2013

Not so united Switzerland

Switzerland has yet to unlock the potential of centralised procurement. Given the country’s extraordinarily high per capita healthcare spending - €7,100 in 2011, almost treble that of the UK, at €2,600, and double Germany, at €3,600 – will the country go for the easy win of rationalising purchasing?
July 18, 2013

Italian procurement remains divided

New, more efficient ways of healthcare procurement are being resisted by the fractious regional politics of Italy. There is still a highly fragmented system for procurement, despite growing pressure on the healthcare budget. We speak with Gabriella Racca of the University of Turin to find out more.
July 9, 2013

Interview: Jorge Gallardo, Chairman, Vithas

From what was once known as Adeslas has emerged Vithas, the fourth-largest private-sector hospital chain in Spain. Jointly owned by Goodgrower and la Caixa Group - in an 80/20 split - Vithas comprises 10 hospitals treating 1.5m patients, with sales of €196m in 2011. We talk to Jorge Gallardo, chairman of the Board of Vithas and managing director of Goodgrower.
January 11, 2013
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