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Norway starts to open up to private sector

The new centre right Norwegian government has announced plans for a voucher system and is encouraging the four health care regions and the municipalities who handle elderly care to further utilize the private sector.
October 21, 2014

Swedish private sector could face restrictive rules as early as 2015

The new minority Social Democrat government has published a radical manifesto, which could eradicate the for-profit sector from the Swedish healthcare, care and education landscape. A commission will report back by March 2016. We look at the manifesto and analyse the likely impact immediately and, also, in 2-3 years time. Prof Anders Anell at Lund University reckons for-profit could face new restrictions in early 2015.
October 14, 2014

Euromedic achieves stable ownership

Euromedic, Europe’s largest imaging service provider, has seen Ares Life Sciences, ultimately owned by Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli, buy out its fellow Euromedic shareholder, Montagu Investments. The deal means that Euromedic will not have to go through a trade sale or an IPO.
October 8, 2014

FREE BLOG Fleury: Building a brand around services

I had a fascinating chat with Rogerio Rabelo, a member of the board of directors at Fleury, one of the largest lab + imaging groups in Brazil. The company which is quoted has sales of around US$800 million and is perceived as a premium brand in Brazil, where some 50m people, a quarter of the population, have private healthcare plans giving access to private providers.
September 22, 2014

Interview: Anna Rulkiewicz, President of the Management Board at LUX MED

LUX MED, recently bought by Bupa, the international healthcare group, is the largest Polish private healthcare operator with five small hospitals, 161 owned outpatient facilities and about 1,600 subcontracted centres located across Poland. The company had sales of €208m in 2013 and is in the middle of an ambitious expansion plan with the aim of making the group the largest private national inpatient chain. We talk to Anna Rulkiewicz, CEO at LUX MED, about the Polish market and LUX MED’s recent and future acquisitions. With a background in sales and marketing Credit Suisse, Zurich and Commercial Union she joined LUX MED in 2002 as sales and marketing director.
September 22, 2014

Teleradiology brightens up

After years of disappointingly slow growth, has teleradiology, the interpretation of images by radiologists sited remotely, started to turn the corner? Europe’s largest player Telemedicine Clinic (TMC) says it has seen 20-30% compound growth for the past four years. We speak to Alexander Böhmcker, TMC’s CEO, who says even Germany is showing signs of opening up.
September 17, 2014

Medsi oligarch arrested

Russian investigators have placed Vladimir Yevtushenkov, chairman of Sistema, the conglomerate which owns Medsi, the largest healthcare operator in Russia, under house arrest on charges of money-laundering. Reuters says that the charges against Sistema's Vladimir Yevtushenkov were made in connection with the acquisition of shares in oil producer Bashneft.
September 17, 2014

Enel-Med sells seven diagnostics centres to Bupa for €14m

Enel-Med, the third largest private healthcare chain in Poland has sold subsidiary Centrum Medyczne Diagnostyka Sp., made up of seven diagnosis centres, to Lux-Med, the largest Polish private chain recently bought by Bupa. We talk to Adam Rozwadowski, President of the Management Board of Enel-Med about what he will do with the money. Enel-Med wants […]
September 15, 2014

Interview: Emmett Moriarty, Consultant

The amount Russians spend privately on healthcare services has doubled in five years and EBITDA margins can reach 40-50% for operators, yet the market remains deeply fragmented with many fairly unsophisticated operators and no national chains. Emmett, a former VP at Medsi, the biggest Russian healthcare group, has a decade’s experience of investing in healthcare services in Russia and Eastern Europe and now works both for investors and for operators. The former sector leader for health at IFC, the commercial bank arm of the World Bank (and world’s largest investor in emerging markets healthcare), Emmett was previously head of KPMG’s Healthcare Performance Improvement division.
September 15, 2014
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