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Sweden’s Praktikertjänst faces uncertain future

Shareholders of Sweden’s largest primary care and dentist firm Praktikertjänst (PTJ) are about to face a drastic rise in their income tax – it could be as high as 58% – after purchasing shares at a lower rate than market value. Healthcare Europa journalist Lee Murray spoke to PTJ CEO Johan Fredriksson, and former Director of PTJ dentistry Per Rehnberg, now CEO of dental organisation Coloseum Smile Group, about the future of PTJ.
November 28, 2014

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

Interview: Martin Swegmark, CEO, Purch

Procurement remains an area where healthcare providers can make substantial savings. Swedish-based Purch has started benchmarking prices across Europe, and works for the public sector in Norway and Sweden and for private players in seven countries. CEO Martin Swegmark joined what became the hospital chain Capio in 1998 and later spent a long time at the lab group Unilabs where he was involved in procurement projects where they achieved Pan-European pricing contracts from suppliers.
November 21, 2014

Aleris to launch video doctor service for Scandinavia

How does video conferencing change patient behaviour and the range of services that can be offered? Aleris, the big private operator who spans primary, hospitals, elderly and disabled care, is set to launch Video Doktor as a Pan-Scandinavian service. This allows patients to talk directly to family doctors and specialists by video link. We look at the model and how Aleris might monetise it. We explore the implications of having a doctor just a click away.
October 23, 2014

FREE BLOG A split Right spells hard times for private healthcare

The rise of far right, anti-EU, anti-immigrant, anti-free trade parties in Europe is splitting the Right/Centrist vote, making it much easier for the parties of the Left to win elections. This has nasty implications for private healthcare services in countries like Sweden, the UK and Finland – the three countries where private equity-backed healthcare has really taken off.
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

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

Outlook brightens for Swedish private healthcare sector

Sweden’s general election has returned what will be a minority Social Democrat-led left/centre coalition. Traditional centrist and right parties lost out to the far right Sweden Democrats who more than doubled their share of the vote to just under 13%. But the SDs lack a majority. What does this mean for the country’s large private healthcare and care sector? We talk to Per Batelson, chairman of Karolinska University Hospital and Patrik Patrick Kallman, CEO of Inca Integrated Care Solutions.
September 22, 2014
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