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Report: Brazilian private health care market: promising, but not all roses

Brazil’s healthcare system is fragmented, inefficient and underfunded. Still, this is Latin America’s largest private healthcare market and is consolidating fast. What are the characteristics of the Brazilian healthcare system? Here we look at the structure of the market and segments such as health insurance, acute care and diagnostics.
February 13, 2015

Do PPPs work in the Developing World?

The failure rate is high for big, operator-led PPPs in the Developing World. Big PPP projects where private players win a long-term contract to run a large public hospital or deliver primary and secondary care to hundreds of thousands for a per capita price often fail, But hundreds of less formal, more ad hoc projects are working well.
February 3, 2015

Turkish PPP hospital programme gathers pace

The regeneration of Turkey’s healthcare infrastructure is moving ahead but securing private contractors has proved difficult for laboratory services. Of the 30 health campuses originally planned, 14 are at the tender stage or further. Our sources suggest that only 8-10 will see the light of day due to funding difficulties. But contracts with private operators worth over a billion euros each have already been signed.
January 29, 2015

Interview: Franceso Longo, director, CERGAS

Professor Longo is a long-term analyst of the Italian NHS and the private sector. Here he predicts a boom for the private sector in all forms of post-acute care, explains why he expects private medical insurance to grow steeply and looks at how the private sector is acquiring not-for-profit operators.
January 15, 2015

Circle pulls out of Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital ahead of CQC report

Listed UK company Circle Holdings have handed back responsibility for Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust to the UK taxpayer, saying government spending cuts and a rise in accident and emergency patients made the hospital an “unsustainable” franchise.
January 12, 2015

Adelis snaps up Med Group

Swedish private equity house Adelis Equity Partners has bought a majority stake in Finnish healthcare services outfit Med Group, which does everything from ambulance services to dentistry and from ophthalmology to homecare. The deal is its first foray into healthcare services. Per Batelson, the former CEO of Capio, who is speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015, is to invest in the company and join the board.
November 21, 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

Interview: Professor Julian Le Grand, London School of Economics

Mutuals in healthcare are a hot topic in the UK and Sweden, and are often seen as a alternative to for-profit operators. Here, Julian Le Grand, professor at the London School of Economics and an influential pro-competition adviser on healthcare to recent New Labour governments in the UK, talks to Healthcare Europa’s Max Hotopf about the rise of mutuals in the UK. Le Grand, who had a ring-side seat on many of the reforms carried out under New Labour, addresses and analyses the main methods of controlling healthcare systems – Trust, Mistrust, Patient Voice, Patient Choice and Regulation.
October 16, 2014

Swedish private sector could face restrictive rules as early as 2015

The new minority Social Democrat government has published a radical manifesto, which could eradicate the for-profit sector from the Swedish healthcare, care and education landscape. A commission will report back by March 2016. We look at the manifesto and analyse the likely impact immediately and, also, in 2-3 years time. Prof Anders Anell at Lund University reckons for-profit could face new restrictions in early 2015.
October 14, 2014
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