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Slovakia to have the first big private-public partnership hospital in 2017

The Slovakian Ministry of Health is currently doing some pre-tender surveys and discussions with possible partners to set up the first PPP hospital in Bratislava. Healthcare Europa’s sources say that hospital chain Svet Zdravia, owned by private equity house Penta, could be one of the front-runners in the tender - which includes the construction, financing and operation of the facility - although there are international bidders too.

Interview: Anna Rulkiewicz, President of the Management Board at LUX MED

LUX MED, recently bought by Bupa, the international healthcare group, is the largest Polish private healthcare operator with five small hospitals, 161 owned outpatient facilities and about 1,600 subcontracted centres located across Poland. The company had sales of €208m in 2013 and is in the middle of an ambitious expansion plan with the aim of making the group the largest private national inpatient chain. We talk to Anna Rulkiewicz, CEO at LUX MED, about the Polish market and LUX MED’s recent and future acquisitions. With a background in sales and marketing Credit Suisse, Zurich and Commercial Union she joined LUX MED in 2002 as sales and marketing director.

Report: Healthcare property – Massive investor demand, limited supply

Two years ago, our European healthcare property survey found the sector in the doldrums with new funds failing to get off the ground, what is the situation now?  Lorena Ruibal reports. Today, we see a spate of new European and US entrants striving to meet strong institutional demand for an asset class, which is increasingly […]

Norlandia buys Dutch kindergarten group

Norlandia, the nursing home, childcare and hospital hotel business, that is majority-owned by Norwegian property developers, the Adolfsen brothers, has made its first acquisition out of the Nordic region, with the purchase of KindeX, the Dutch childcare group. We talk to CEO Hilde-Britt Mellbye.

Exeunt omnes

Europe's largest healthcare service companies are queueing up for the exit in 2014. Expect Apax-owned Capio, the Swedish, French, German, British hospital group, to seek an IPO in Sweden after the election. Euromedic, the Pan-European imaging services group, is also likely to IPO or go for a trade sale in the second half of 2013, as will Median Kliniken in Germany. Cinven-owned UK hospital chain Spire is veering towards a trade sale, but could also IPO. We look at prospects.

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.

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”.

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