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HC-One for sale
The UK's largest care home operator is seeking a buyer. We hear it is existing investors - and not chairman Dr Chai Patel - looking for an exit and that the listed Europeans are likely to steer clear.
May 22, 2018
Medicover buys hospital in northwest Romania
Listed European and Indian outpatient, hospital and lab group Medicover has expanded in Romania by acquiring an independent 130-bed hospital in the northwest town of Oradea. We talk to local contacts about the deal.
May 22, 2018
UK care home chain pioneers use of robots
There will be a robot in every care home within five years. This is the bold prediction of Dr Sanjeev Kanoria, founder and chairman of Advinia Healthcare which runs a network of 38 homes in the UK. Healthcare Europa speaks to him about a pilot project designed to find out if talkative robots are ready to help residents coping with dementia.
May 21, 2018
Kry: The Business Model
Here we look at the business model deployed by Kry, which together with Medgate and babylon, is one of Europe’s largest player in the delivery of digital healthcare. The Swedish company claims 2% of all doctor primary care visits in Sweden (350,000 since launch) and has since spring 2017 opened in Spain and Norway with a series of other openings planned in 2018 and pilot permission in the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. So what does it offer, who pays and how does it see the policymaker and legal debate around digital health rolling out across Europe?
May 21, 2018
Medgate AI project to cut costs by 30-40%
Digital healthcare pioneer Medgate is evaluating opportunities in Germany and other European countries. A chatbot based on the 12 million telehealth sessions it has held over the past 19 years is in development and will be launched at the end of 2018 and should reduce costs by 30-40%, Medgate CEO and founder Andy Fischer tells Healthcare Europa.
May 21, 2018
Mehilainen sold to CVC
Mehilainen, the big Finnish occupational outpatient group has been sold in a deal valued at around €1.8bn to CVC by Triton and KKR. We talk to Mehilainen CEO Janne-Olli Järvenpää about the deal and growth plans. Will he look outside Finland?
May 18, 2018
Allied Healthcare strikes deal with creditors
UK domiciliary care group Allied Healthcare has struck an agreement with its creditors, allowing it to continue operating after serious short-term cashflow problems caused by wage hikes, compulsory back pay and delays in passing all this on to local authorities.
May 17, 2018
Care homes already paying the price for Brexit as UK nurse agency fees spiral
Brexit is already having an effect on the cost of hiring registered nurses from agencies in the UK, with prices up almost two-and-a-half times in rural areas.
May 17, 2018
Terveystalo to buy Attendo’s Finnish healthcare operations
As Healthcare Europa predicted in March, the Nordic’s largest care group, Attendo, is selling its Finnish healthcare business to Terveystalo, Finland’s largest healthcare provider by revenue.
May 17, 2018
Insight & Interviews
Interview: Giuseppe Recchi, CEO and Rowland Illing, CMO, Affidea
In a wide-ranging interview, we look at Affidea’s strategy and view of the market covering everything from partnerships with AI outfits, elite hospitals and payors through to the growth of private pay and the opportunities to manage entire health systems. How will the imaging services and radiotherapy group with HBI estimated sales of around €370m in 2017 grow and build over the next five years?
May 21, 2018
Interview: Sanjeev Kanoria, founder, Advinia Healthcare
UK care home provider Advinia Healthcare has acquired 22 Bupa homes, bringing its operation to 38 homes with 3,250 beds. Healthcare Europa speaks to founder and chairman Dr Sanjeev Kanoria about his new homes, and why he thinks he can make a better job of running them than their previous owner.
May 17, 2018
Interview: Franz-Robert Klingan, Bain & Company
Healthcare Europa speaks to Franz-Robert Klingan, Munich-based partner at global consultants Bain & Company who runs its healthcare private equity practice for EMEA, to find out his three key messages from the last year and where he thinks the hotbeds of activity will be going forward.
May 14, 2018
Interview: Ruben Bhagobati, AMP Capital
Australia-based global investment group AMP Capital bought The Regard Group, a UK-based specialist care business, at the end of last year. Healthcare Europa catches up with Ruben Bhagobati, who heads up the company's infrastructure investment arm in Europe, to find out why he thinks the European specialist care market is the one to watch.
March 28, 2018
Care Delivery: Building integrated care for patients with many co-morbidities
The term integrated care can sometimes feel like an over-used buzzword. So it can help to think about what it means for the very patients who are most often failed by existing fragmented systems of care. For Jonathan Darer that means those with complex co-morbidities and how they are treated across the medical system from acute to their homes. Here we to talk to Dr.Darer, Medical Director, Siemens Healthineers and former chief innovation officer at Geisinger to explore why and what integrated care for such patients should look like and how to best deliver it. Few healthcare systems in the world are yet capable of delivering a continuity of care experience that is needed for these complex patients.
March 27, 2018
Interview: Dr. Arthur Kaindl, General Manager, Digital Health Services, Siemens Healthineers
What impact will digital health, in all its forms, have on the shape and size of the private health care sector? We talk to Dr. Kaindl, who reckons the winners are likely to be the big for-profit groups.
March 15, 2018
Interview: Nick Sanderson, CEO, Audley Group
In 2017 UK institutional investors finally discovered the assisted living sector, with Legal and General and Axa both buying operators. Yet the sector remains tiny in the UK, thanks to older Brits fixation with remaining in their own homes as well as severe planning restrictions. Nonetheless, there is high demand, property investors have fallen in love with the sector and governments the world over are rethinking their attitude to the sector. Audley Group is the largest player in the sector, Nick has been in the sector since 1986 and chairs the sector’s trade association, Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO).
March 9, 2018
Interview: Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare employs several thousand software engineers today. So what will the medtech giant’s role in healthcare look like in five or ten years’ time? As an incumbent, does it see Apple, Google, and Amazon et al as a threat? And what sort of relationship does it want to forge with big private operators? We talk to Kieran who became CEO in June 2017, having run GE Healthcare Life Sciences for five years.
March 6, 2018
Interview: Dr Bruno Gridelli, Senior Vice President, UPMC International
How do you build an international business delivering high-quality specialist care working with governments, public payors, regions and for-profit operators? UPMC, the big US academic medical centre, has done just this in four very different countries: Italy, Ireland, Kazakhstan and China. We talk to Dr Gridelli about the business model and challenges.
February 22, 2018
Interview: Richard Banks, Virtus Health
Australia-based fertility network Virtus Health Limited runs a series of clinics in Ireland, is making inroads in Denmark, and has a presence in Singapore. Healthcare Europa talks to European MD Richard Banks about strategy, expansion, and the market.
February 5, 2018
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HBI Presentations
Community care for people with intellectual disability in Europe: Marc Kitten, Candesic – HBI 2018
Catering for those with learning disabilities is a growing market in the UK and Nordic region and there are clear signs of opportunities opening up across Europe. Here Marc gives an overview of the sector country by country.
May 9, 2018
Investment opportunities in the Dutch healthcare market: Rune Aresvik, Vardetun – HBI 2018
Presentation which goes through the opportunities in all the major sectors in detail. As presented at HBI 2018. Click here to view the presentation.
May 1, 2018
Top Six Workforce Risks for Private Health Facilities: Dr. Kate Tulenko, Corvus Health – HBI 2018
A massive training market is opening up, thanks to the huge shortages the world faces of health and care staff. Kate has been analysing the sector for over decade for The World Bank and Corvus Health. Here she case-studies how countries and private operators are building capacity and increasing workforce efficiency. What are the viable business models for Europe and Emerging Markets?
April 24, 2018
How Cultural Change Delivers: Samantha Laurent, Unilabs – HBI 2018
Happy employees deliver better service, driving better returns. Here Samantha looks at how Unilabs has managed cultural change at every level in the organisation from delivery men to senior management. New models include defining service best practice working with Ritz Carlton through to the introduction of 360 degree feedback and the iceberg model of behavioural drivers.
April 19, 2018
Building an International Hospital Chain in CEE: Attila Vegh, Penta Hospitals International – HBI 2018
Penta Hospitals has built the largest chain of multi-national hospitals across Central and Eastern Europe.
April 19, 2018
International growth of Medipass: Presentation, Guglielmo Brayda di Soleto, Medipass – HBI 2018
Guglielmo Brayda di Soleto, CEO, Medipass Part of the listed Italian KOS Group Medipass designs, implements and manages cancer diagnostic and treatment services in the UK, Italy, India and the GCC.
April 19, 2018
Utilising Big Data to increase patient engagement and health benefits: Yrjo Narhinen, Terveystalo – HBI 2018
Detailed overview of how a formidable pioneer has built its digital platform. As presented at HBI 2018. Click here to view the presentation.
April 19, 2018
Healthcare Real Estate: Presentation, David Batchelor, CBRE – HBI 2018
Real estate is now at the heart of most deals in health care services. Often, it is the key to premium pricing and deals won and lost. In a data-driven presentation, David looks at valuations and forecasts across Europe and Emerging Markets. He then X-rays deals made or broken by property.
April 19, 2018
Partnership for Prevention: Presentation, Jeanette Ryan, GSK – HBI 2018
Partnership for Prevention is a revolutionary preventive healthcare programme for all GSK employees and their benefits-eligible family members, regardless of role and location. It enables access, at little or no cost, to up to 40 evidence-based preventive health services, including immunisations, cancer screening, preventive exams, prenatal care and tobacco cessation, as well as treatment options for conditions such as HIV and cardiovascular disease. All services were chosen based on evidence-based medicine and recommendations from the World Health Organisation.
Jeanette has been with the programme since its start which has now been rolled out to well over 100,000 employees, plus their families, in approximately 100 countries. She walks us through GSK’s rationale for a preventive healthcare programme of this scale, the dynamics required to work with partners for successful implementation and how GSK engages with employees on health and wellbeing.
April 19, 2018
Integrated Provider Models – Beauty or Beast?: Presentation, Wolf Kupatt, amedes – HBI 2018
Unusually, big diagnostic lab group amedes also runs a national network of specialist outpatient doctor practices across Germany in areas such as gynaecology, fertility, diabetes and metabolic medicine. The beauty of such vertical integration is that amedes can offer more holistic treatment and brings together specialist doctors with formidable skills sets with equally specialist diagnostics. The beast is that the model adds considerable complexity and highlights potential conflicts of interest that exist in most integrated healthcare models.
