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Falck starts clinic chain in Russia

Danish emergency services and clinic provider Falck is moving into Russia. In mid-July, the company will open a clinic in Vladivostock with 15 overnight beds, employing 125 staff and offering a range of mostly low-acuity elective surgery.

Interview: Dimitris Moulavasilis, Chief Executive, Euromedic

How are players dependent on a shrinking public purse in South and East Europe reacting? Who better to ask than Dimitris Moulavasilis, CEO of Euromedic? The company offers imaging, labs and oncology services in 15 countries, from Ireland and Portugal in the West to Russia and Turkey in the East.

Report: The UK market for healthcare services outsourcing

The real opportunity over the next two years for the private sector in the UK will be outsourcing community nursing and the functional privatisation of community hospitals, according to PWC. Organisations that can deliver integrated care packages, from community to acute services, will also see opportunities. The market for functional privitisation of acute general hospitals, however, will be limited in the short term.

RHM buys Heinrich Mann clinic

Waterland-owned RHM Kliniken has acquired the Heinrich Mann clinic as part of its buy-and-build strategy. We look at how the rehabilitation and specialist nursing home group is developing.

Bridgepoint set to sell Terveystalo

Informed sources say that Finnish operator Terveystalo, one of the two largest players in the sector, is being put up for sale by private equity owner Bridgepoint. The company provides corporate wellness and occupational health services, outpatient clinics, medicalised homecare and inpatient hospitals across the country. Both Bridgepoint and Terveystalo declined to comment.

Global Health Partner’s second chance

The business model was ambitious: build a chain of holistic clinics across the world, each focused on a particular condition, and then demonstrate that you are the national best for back pain, orthopaedics or complex dentistry. But Swedish group Global Health Partner has conspicuously failed to deliver, with an EBIT loss after write-downs of SEK 50m on sales of SEK 138m in the first nine months of 2012. The share price halved over the year. We look at whether new CEO Marianne Dicander Alexandersson can turn it around.

Interview: Alison Platt, Managing Director, International Markets Development, Bupa

UK insurer Bupa has just bought Polish clinic chain Lux Med for £325m. The move means that an insurer now owns the largest Polish private healthcare provider. This is a sea change for a private healthcare market where insurers have always been weak outsiders, while the country has been dominated by a combination of private subscription healthcare providers and a black market in public healthcare services. We talk to Alison Platt, the managing director of Bupa’s international operations, about vertical integration.

Bergman plans massive growth

Bergman Clinics, the largest private ambulatory clinic chain in the Netherlands, plans to grow 2012 sales of €70m nearly four times to €250m by 2016. The group, owned by the Malenstein family and entrepreneur Jaap Maljers, is looking for an external investor to take a minority stake. We talk to Chief Executive Bart Malenstein and give an overview of the Dutch private clinic market.

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