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Synlab buys two and could be a target itself

Synlab has bought Austrian and Italian labs. But could it be a target?

December 4, 2014

Report: Could the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) force open public sector provision to private competition?

We talk to academics and policymakers about TTIP's potential impact on public sector healthcare provision in Europe. Fear, uncertainty and doubt surround the discussions between the European Union and the United States on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its possible impact on public healthcare services.

December 3, 2014

Merger creates new Finnish giant

Finnish dentistry-to-elderly care player Mediverkko and acute care-to-elderly care group Mehilainen are to merge to create a group with sales of €400m in 2014. We talk to the new CEO Mediverkko’s Janne Jarvenpaa.

November 20, 2014

German labs hope for a “a bit of a bang in Berlin”

After a traumatic couple of years, the German diagnostic lab sector has set up a new body, Akkreditierte Labore in der Medizin (ALM), to represent its interests. We look at the lobbying sector for diagnostic labs on Europe and the prospects of lab reform in Germany.

November 20, 2014

FREE BLOG No one is pushing lab diagnostics

Lab diagnostics remains a Cinderella sector. At approximately 2% of healthcare expenditure in most West European countries, it is too small to be of interest to the powerful sales forces and lobbyists from big pharma and big medtech.

November 13, 2014

Worries at Amedes

Amedes, the big German-Belgian lab group, owned by General Atlantic, which failed to sell earlier in 2014, has yet to appoint a new CEO to replace Juerg Debatin who quit in June.

November 12, 2014

Lab and imaging projects prove tough

The massive long-term lab and imaging service contracts associated with the big Turkish hospital PFIs are proving a headache for providers to price.

October 31, 2014

Labco postpones IPO

Labco, the big Pan-West European lab group has decided to postpone its IPO until 2015. We look at why.

October 31, 2014

Interview: Vuk Vukovic, Partner, Blue Sea Capital

MediGroup is Serbia’s largest private healthcare provider. As well as a private hospital with 60 beds, it has a chain of outpatient clinics and recently bought the largest ophthalmology practice in the country. We talk to Vuk Vukovic at investor Blue Sea Capital about Medigroup’s business model and the Serbian market.

October 28, 2014

Dubai IPO of acquisition-seeking investment ‘shell’ set for Monday

An initial public offering for shares in a new investment vehicle, aimed at enabling investors to benefit from the Gulf’s rapidly-expanding healthcare and education markets, will begin in Dubai on Monday, October 20, 2014. By Helen Burggraf

October 17, 2014

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