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Debatin quits Amedes

Joerg Debatin has quit as CEO of Amedes, the big German diagnostics laboratory, to join GE Healthcare as its chief technology officer. Some sources say that there are two remaining bidders for Amedes. Others say that everyone has now pulled out and the process is dead.
August 8, 2014

Poor outlook for private healthcare sector in Sweden

Sweden’s extensive private healthcare sector faces months of uncertainty. The left is almost certain to win the Swedish general election on 16 September 2014. The only question is whether we will end up with a minority, moderate Social Democrat government or a Red/Green Alliance backed by the Marxist Feminist Initiative and the Left. What does this mean for the sector?
August 6, 2014

Labco buys SDN in Naples

Labco, the Pan-European diagnostic lab group, has bought sdn, the largest diagnostics centre in Naples with a large lab and imaging parc.
August 5, 2014

Interview: Ahmed Badreldin, Partner, The Abraaj Group

No other private equity house can match Abraaj’s experience of investing in healthcare services in the developing world. A lead investor in Turkish hospital group Acibadem, which was then sold to IHH, the international hospital chain, Abraaj has rolled out a lab buy and build in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East, has recently started a similar play building a Pan-North African chain of hospitals and has also invested in half a dozen hospital and outpatient clinics across sub-Saharan Africa. Ahmed will be speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015 on April 28 in London.
July 24, 2014

Euromedic appoints HSBC

Imaging services provider Euromedic has appointed HSBC to review the business. Bankers expect this to lead to a sale this autumn.
July 24, 2014

Future looks bright for private healthcare in Italy

Italian spending on private healthcare dropped in 2013 to €29.6bn, but the rise of mutual insurers and the “retailisation” of swathes of Italian healthcare means that the sector should continue to grow fast over the next decade, according to Francesco Maietta at Censis, a think tank which has just surveyed 1,200 consumers.
July 14, 2014

Fresenius Medical Care pulls out of Amedes and Synlab

Dialysis giant Fresenius MC decided not to buy Synlab after carrying out due diligence and has also pulled out of the running to buy Amedes. Meanwhile, it has just purchased a majority stake in US healthcare management group Sound Physicians.
June 27, 2014
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