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Public healthcare sector killing private companies in Italy

Late payments, shut downs and politically driven management – welcome to the world of Italian private healthcare operators. We talk to Sergio Antonio Bolognese at Espansione, a consultancy specialising in advising the private sector, on the problems it faces.
August 4, 2014

Babiš buys into IVF and gynae clinics

Czech billionaire and current Minister of Finance, Andrej Babiš has bought IVF clinics in Poland and the Czech Republic through a private equity fund he controls.
May 29, 2014

HCA reacts with fury to Competition Commission ruling

The final version of the UK Competition Commission report lets BMI keep all its hospitals, but will still force HCA to divest hospitals with sales of roughly £150m plus or a quarter of its London empire. Can HCA lodge a successful appeal? And what is the silver lining which means the report should revolutionise the UK private hospital sector?-
April 2, 2014

San Donato and Garafalo look abroad

San Donato and Garofal, two of the largest Italian hospital chains, are planning to move abroad and are looking at Russia, the Middle East and North Africa.
April 1, 2014

Private poacher Batelson turns public gamekeeper

Who’d have thought it? The former CEO of Capio, the international private hospital chain has just been made chairman of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, the largest and most prestigious university hospital in the Nordic region. Batelson says that university hospitals, like business schools, are now competing internationally for patients, staff and budgets.
February 28, 2014

Dialysis shows holiday potential

Dialysis holidays are surprisingly big business, according to Dag Andersson CEO of Diaverum. What does this tell us about new forms of healthcare tourism?
February 26, 2014

Romania to tighten basket of services

After nearly a decade since the last structural reforms to its healthcare system, the Romanian government is about to move to a new model, in which citizens' rights to free healthcare are carefully defined and restricted. Will this lead to a private healthcare bonanza?
February 13, 2014

Should private investors fund Proton Therapy Centres?

The Proton Therapy Center (PTC) in Prague, one of the very few private proton centres in Europe, is the source of a dispute between Erste Bank, which lent it CZK 4.2bn (€153m) and VZP, the largest Czech insurer. We look at what is going on, and at the business model behind it.
February 7, 2014
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