Private equity specialist Gilde Healthcare has invested in the Dutch occupational healthcare and physiotherapy markets with two recent deals. We talk to Jasper Van Gorp. ...
Sergiu Negut (INSEAD MBA03) was deputy CEO of Regina Maria (previously CMU) for the last six years. There, he built, together with the founder, the largest private healthcare network in Romania, through a series of greenfield investments and acquisitions. After reacently leaving Regina Maria, we talk to him about how he sees Romanian healthcare developing....
Romania will privatise statutory healthcare insurance in 2013, in a move which creates a new market worth over €4bn a year and that may also lead to many public hospitals being put under the management of private companies. The move will be announced week commencing December 12. Insurers tell is they are sure it will pass as it has the backing of the outgoing Romanian president. We look at the implications....
German statutory insurers or krankenkassen have had a good year and are heading for a surplus of €3-4bn in 2010, after two years of bad losses. But what does that mean for healthcare?...
Václav Jirkù is in charge of healthcare investment strategy at Penta Investments which is the most active private equity investor in healthcare services across Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the Visegrad 4 countries, as well as looking at the wider East European market. So where does he spot opportunities in healthcare services over the next five years?...
Telehealth seems to be stuck in a rut of pilots, pilots and more pilots. But other homecare sectors - particularly the hospital at home concept - are growing fast....
Iberia stands out as the one place in Europe where diagnostic lab groups face immense pressure. In Spain, insurers who have forced through 20-30% price cuts in the last 3 years are back for more. In Portugal, prices have been cut by 12.5% and worse the Ministry of Health is favouring the public sector and capping sales volumes. We investigate....
A few Dutch hospitals are looking at privatisation and all of the general hospitals face a big squeeze as government and insurers limit their output, according to Chris van den Haak at consultants BDO which has just completed a report on the Dutch hospitals and their future....
Bulgaria is probably the largest private acute hospital sector in the former accession countries with revenues of around €625-700m. It is also perceived as poor and corrupt. We talk to Ilian Grigorov, a former VP at Bedminister Capital, about the market and his plans....
The prospects for radical health reform in Ireland are receding as costs and complications mount. The European Court of Justice has ruled that the government will have to inject €250-330m in state owned insurer VHI and health minister James Reilly has gone very quiet on his favoured route, the Dutch model. Meanwhile, employers, reeling from 18% annual medical inflation, are moving away from offering employees and their families full cover and towards a defined contribution model, says Kevin Kinsella at Mercer....
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