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Eurocept buys Medizorg and tries to re-invent homecare

Eurocept, the Dutch pharmaceutical and home care company backed by private equity house GIMV, is to buy medicalised homecare group Medizorg to create a group with sales of €300m with Benelux and Pan-Nordic ambitions. We talk to Eurocept CEO, Mike van Woensel about homecare business models.
September 30, 2014

Interview: Jill Schwieters, EVP, Cielo, President Cielo Healthcare

People remain the main cost and the main asset for almost all healthcare service companies. Yet most operators could manage recruitment, training and retention better. Cielo Healthcare is the largest healthcare recruitment process outsourcer in the world and is active in Europe, Middle East, as well as North America. Schwieters has developed the business since its inception nine years ago. Before that, she was Chief HR Executive for the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system in the Midwest with nearly25,000 employees. Cielo is backed by AKKR, a fund raised by KKR to invest in service and technology companies.
September 29, 2014

Permira to build new imaging services provider

Private equity house Permira is backing a merger between Mesa Medical, a Pan-European supplier of third party maintenance and used imaging kit, and Asteral, which is the largest provider of managed equipment services around imaging equipment in the UK. The deal will alarm suppliers like Siemens, GE and Philips.
August 1, 2014

Five super-regions promise radical reform for Finland

The Finnish government, a coalition between the centre right and the social democrats, is proposing that all publicly paid for healthcare and care services should be procured by five new super regions. They would take over purchasing these services from the 320 municipalities who handle elderly and primary care and the 20 hospital regions who run acute care. But will the new regions actually take over the public nursing homes and hospitals or merely procurement of services? The move is seen as a potential bonanza for the private sector. Is this correct? We talk to Prof. Juhani Lehto about the odds on change.
April 14, 2014

Centene set to buy Ribera Salud

Centene, the US Medicaid specialist, is set to buy Spanish hospital Ribera Salud, the company behind the pioneering Alzira model in which a consortium of private operators run primary and secondary care for the public payor for a region of 250,000-300,000 people. It plans to then export Alzira to countries as varied as Latin America, the UK and even North America.
March 27, 2014

NHS hospitals start outsourcing labs

Lab chain Labco has just won a contract worth £250m over ten years from two English NHS hospital foundation trusts. The NHS has a notoriously inefficient diagnostic lab sector - do these deals mean that finally we will see the growth of lab outsourcing in England?
March 27, 2014

Korona claims the best

Specialising purely in investing in health care services has paid off for Finnish fund Korona Invest.
February 28, 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

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
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