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Interview: Ville Ohman, CEO of Laastari Lähiklinikka

We talk to Ville Ohman, CEO of Laastari Lähiklinikka who claims its proximity treatment centres provide primary care at less than half the price of normal family doctor visits. The centres are modeled on Minuteclinics, the US chain and Swedish group Global Health Partner has just taken a minority stake in Laastari....
October 25, 2011

Interview: George Commander, CEO, InterHealth Canada

InterHealth Canada specialises in integrated healthcare PPPs. In other words, it builds the facility and then manages the delivery of healthcare on long-term contracts. We talk to George Commander, a civil engineer by profession, about InterHealth’s recent contract win in Poland, where it is to run the first integrated PPP hospital for the next 30 years. What are the opportunities for this model in Eastern Europe?...
October 13, 2011

Interview: Karen Prosser, EC Harris, Partner, Health sector

Karen started her career as a radiographer in the British NHS before joining Siemens and then moving into consultancy with EC Harris, the international built asset consultancy. The practice works with both public and private sector organisations to assist in delivering best value for money from their health facilities. This not only includes development of new buildings but also assesses how facilities are managed over the long term, including looking at delivery of cleaning and catering services.....
September 23, 2011

Report: Care homes in Eastern Europe

If the differences between East and West Europe are big in hospitals, in the care home sector they are often a gaping chasm. Apart from Slovenia, the private sector remains all but non-existent or in fragmented into mom’n’pop businesses across the region. But changes are coming, as countries start to open the sector to private investors and start to restructure hospitals, which often contain many of the infirm elderly, who would be in care homes in the West.
September 19, 2011

Advent buys American Heart of Poland

Private equity group Advent International has moved into Polish healthcare services, buying the American Heart of Poland chain....
September 15, 2011

The shift from acute hospitals to nursing homes

Across much of Europe the next decade will see a massive shift from acute hospital beds to nursing home beds. A vast oversupply of hospital beds, often used to provide long-term care for the elderly, are being replaced by nursing beds.  The shift will enable governments to greatly reduce costs. French nursing home group Korian claims that in Italy acute beds cost the state €500-1,000 a day, whilst nursing home beds cost just €25....
September 15, 2011

Operating margins fall at Asklepios

Paying more for temp doctors left operating margins down at Asklepios, one of the big three German hospital groups.  First half profits were then clobbered by a €37.5m write off of its stake in Athens Medical Center, one of the big four Greek hospital groups. Net profits fell from €53.7m to just €6.8m. We analyse the figures and look at general prospects for the German sector....
September 7, 2011

Interview: Tomáš Macháček, HealthReform

We interview Tomáš Machácek, head of the thinktank HealthReform and chief executive of KlientPRO, about the prospects for healthcare reform and the private sector in the Czech republic....
September 7, 2011

Vitalia versus Medi-Partenaires

One big French hospital group, Vitalia has just raised around €615m through the debt markets, whilst another, Medi-Partenaires, has raised around €240m by selling seven hospitals to property group Icade. So who got the best deal? We look at the yields and what this tells us about the state of the French market....
July 8, 2011
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