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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

Norwegian government examines private sector involvement

Healthcare was a hot topic in the 2013 Norwegian elections. The right won partly on a promise to involve the private sector, with state money following the patient. But how to implement the pledge? The country's Minister of Health and Care Services might be having second thoughts.
February 7, 2014

Finnish property sector grows

Healthcare property is selling in Finland, as BPT Asset Management raises a second fund. We talk to fund manager Jussi Rouhento.
January 31, 2014

Interview: Mark Hellowell, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Hellowell is a healthcare academic who specialises in PPPs, evaluating their performance around the world, consulting with development agencies and acting as a special adviser to the Health Select Committee in the British House of Commons. He also lectures on healthcare reform to a diverse group of postgraduate students, many of them from developing countries. We talk to him about the role private healthcare companies can, and are, playing in the developing and developed worlds, the future for PPPs, and whether they are “a good thing”.
January 23, 2014

Amedes buys Medivision

Amedes, the big German lab group, has bought Medivision, the endocrinology chain, from the receivers. We reveal the sum paid, and look at EBITDA margins. How does this fit with the ongoing sale of Amedes?
January 10, 2014

Polish health group ScanMed looks for investor

ScanMed, a diverse Polish healthcare group, is looking for a strategic investor. We look at the group and who might buy it. Meanwhile, Bupa-owned LUX MED has bought an 81% stake in Carolina Medical Center.
December 18, 2013

Interview: Stuart Fletcher, CEO, Bupa

It has been a busy year for insurer, hospital operator and care group Bupa. New CEO Stuart Fletcher is spending roughly £1.25bn to buy businesses in half a dozen countries across the world. That includes the planned acquisition of Cruz Blanca, a Chilean service provider and insurer, as well as the purchases of Quality HealthCare (a network of 102 outpatient clinics and 500 affiliates in Hong Kong), Richmond Villages (an assisted living business in the UK), LUX MED (the largest subscription healthcare operator in Poland), ten nursing homes in Australia, and dentists here, there and everywhere. All this is part of the Bupa 2020 master plan, which will see the world’s largest player in ex-pat insurance deliver far more integrated care. We talk to Fletcher to find out more.
December 6, 2013

Medivision for sale

Medivision - with 685 employees, probably the largest outpatient chain in Germany - has sought protection from its creditors after its majority-owner was imprisoned for fraud. The business, which claimed sales of over €80m in 2010, is now for sale.
October 18, 2013
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