Sources close to Falck, the international ambulance, fire service, homecare and healthcare group, say it is talking to interested parties about selling off parts of the business. But, as we hear a big deal is on the cards, what is it likely to sell – and for what kinds of multiples?
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Capio cements place in Danish acute care market with two acquisitions
Swedish healthcare operator Capio has added a hospital and radiology unit to its network in Denmark. Healthcare Europa speaks to Capio, an analyst covering them and a local contact in the country.
October 17, 2017
Care home group Four Seasons announces capital restructuring plans
Britain’s second largest care home group has accounted plans to reform its capital structure that it says are needed to stave off default on existing debt.
Britain’s second largest care home group has announced plans to reform its capital structure that it says are needed to stave off default on existing debt.
October 17, 2017
The benefits of genome sequencing – and the threat risk-based pricing brings to pooling
Genome sequencing – determining the complete DNA sequence of a person - has the potential to revolutionise the healthcare insurance industry. But in an industry based on risk, what effect will the increasing ability to predict how and when someone might die have on the market?
October 16, 2017
From contract to claim: How different healthcare insurance will be in just five years
By 2022 the journey claimants make from taking out a policy to receiving payment will look very different. Nicolas Roubin, head of business development in Europe for new UK-based expat international private medical insurance (IPMI) specialists Now Health International knows insurers will have to change their approach.
October 16, 2017
The four things we learned at this year’s Global Health Insurance Conference
There's a crisis in healthcare insurance in which traditional players face being squeezed out by large tech-savvy players entering the market and cozying up to providers. But there are also opportunities for insurers willing to embrace change quickly. Healthcare Europa was at the 9th Global Health Insurance Conference in Amsterdam at the end of last month talking to delegates to find out more.
October 16, 2017
EQT swoops on Pan-Euro dentistry platform Curaeos
Swedish private equity group EQT pre-empted second round bidding for Curaeos, the Dutch dentistry group which has expanded into Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Italy. But it is paying the seller, Bencis Capital Partners, a very high price. We look at the price and the roll up.
October 13, 2017
Attendo may sell Finnish healthcare arm and bid for Alloheim
Listed Nordic healthcare group Attendo plans to sell its Finnish healthcare business and is one of several potential bidders for the German nursing home group Alloheim, according to unconfirmed reports.
October 11, 2017
Finnish group pioneering predictive and preventative-focussed lab testing
Finnish healthcare group Coronaria says it is the country's first healthcare service provider to routinely use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) testing claiming it gives better, faster and cheaper results.
October 10, 2017
Colosseum’s European campaign enters Finnish arena
The Jacobs-backed dental group Colosseum has bought Oral Hammaslääkärit of Finland from private equity firm Capman, giving it presence right across the Nordics.
October 9, 2017
Insight & Interviews
“We can meet the needs of the baby boom generation with today’s medical capacity”
That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.
September 26, 2017
Interview: Dr Peter Bazso, Director, Duna Medical Centre, Hungary
The Duna Medical Center (DMC) aims to be the most substantial private hospital in Hungary, with an ambitious building programme, and the only one that covers almost all surgical areas. Healthcare Europa speaks to its director Dr Peter Bazso about its business model, expansion and the wider market in Hungary.
September 21, 2017
Pan-European dentistry is here, but at what price?
The first truly Pan-European dentistry giant with clinics in around ten countries could soon be a reality after years of gradual bottom-up consolidation. A huge fragmented market remains to be conquered – but we hear concerns that prices are coming unstuck from reality.
September 14, 2017
Interview: Nooman Haque, managing director of life sciences and healthcare, Silicon Valley Bank UK
A foundation of the valley, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been offering banking services to the world’s tech-capital since 1982. Healthcare is a key focus and in this interview Nooman Haque tells Healthcare Europa why we should be taking notice of the space.
September 14, 2017
Interview: Stefaan Gieelens, CEO, Aedifica
The CEO of the Belgian and Pan-European property investor Aedifica reveals to Healthcare Europa the ace up his sleeve in Europe’s increasingly competitive healthcare property market.
September 14, 2017
Waterland scotches Median for-sale rumours
Rumours that the private equity firm Waterland will sell the German rehabilitation giant have started to circulate. We put them to partner Dr Carsten Rahlfs and discussed the future of the market and acute care group ATOS.
September 8, 2017
Interview: Dr Katherine Tulenko: Vice President of Health Systems Innovation, IntraHealth International
The world needs to produce more surgeons than have ever lived in the next decade. That statistic highlights the massive medical shortage that the world faces today. Our annual Siemens Healthineers survey found that staff shortages were the number one problem for private operators in Emerging Markets and the second most important in Europe.
September 6, 2017
Interview: Teo Sarda, Sphera Global Health Care
Operating in 25 countries and across four continents, Sphera Global Health Care is building a global network of local expertise. Working mainly with insurers, the group acts as a middle man to assist access to international-standard medical services through local infrastructure – if it is not available. We speak to CEO Teo Sarda.
August 31, 2017
Interview: Yngvar Tov Herbjørnssønn, CEO of Norlandia
It is one year since Nordics company Norlandia, which runs nursing homes and social care units in Norway, Sweden and Finland, appointed its new CEO Yngvar Tov Herbjørnssønn. Healthcare Europa chats with him about the group's relationship with municipalities, international expansion and changes in the long-term care market in the region.
August 20, 2017
Interview: Jos Lamers, CEO of laboratory and imaging diagnostics group Unilabs
Switzerland-based diagnostics group Unilabs appears on track to meet its target to become a €2bn giant, after buying four companies based in three continents in just 48 days. CEO Jos Lamers tells Healthcare Europa why it is becoming increasingly important to diversify internationally.
August 16, 2017
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Reports
Real solutions for retention and recruitment
Recruitment, retention and training are now the primary challenges for the healthcare services industry. The obvious solution to keeping staff - paying more – is no longer working. Private operators around the world are now fishing in a global market that's short of 15m healthcare workers. So what practical solutions are operators putting into force and what really works? We talk to 25 operators from across the world.
March 9, 2017
Healthcare Europa Report: Can you make money in the UK in social care?
Despite increasing bureaucracy, spiralling costs, and local authority budget cuts, there is still money to be made in UK social care – but where and how?
January 4, 2017
MBAs and executive training courses – are they worth the time and money?
You can’t become an expert in healthcare services overnight - but there are courses, MBAs or much shorter executive training courses - which say they can help to transform you or your staff into the next generation of healthcare managers, leaders and entrepreneurs. But can they really do this - and are they good value for money? Where should you send yourself, or your staff, to fill any gaps in knowledge that might be putting the brakes on a career? And does it matter if the management course isn’t focussed on healthcare at all?
December 14, 2016
Reading the future of the European labs sector
The European diagnostic lab sector in 2016 presents opportunities, but also substantial threats. Apart from seizing market share from competitors, there are four ways that labs can grow sales – consolidation/rationalisation, diversification into new test groups, outsourcing and finally moving into other areas - be that imaging or outpatient specialty care.
November 11, 2016
The rise and rise of digital primary care
A battle is being fought over England’s 340 million annual GP consultations. As waiting lists rise in the NHS, patients are flowing to a host of digital upstarts. Competition is fierce, prices are low and no one seems to like each other very much! We uncover the story of their race to get ahead.
October 21, 2016
The changing face of cosmetic surgery in Europe
Cosmetic surgery is en vogue in Europe. France and Germany alone saw over 1m procedures conducted for the first time in 2015. But a growth in popularity doesn't necessarily mean the arrival of a consolidation trend. While private equity groups like Aurelius and Polaris have invested in national chains, the market remains extremely fragmented. In this feature, we take a look at the emergence of new players, find out which treatments are growing and ask several executives in the sector about their plans.
August 31, 2016
Greek private hospitals: between Scylla and Charybdis
During the peak of the tensions on Greece’s potential exit of the euro in the summer of 2015, private operators told Healthcare Europa of their difficulties to stay afloat in light of a 40% claw-back. Meanwhile, there were reports people could not afford to pay upfront costs and that hospitals were running dangerously low on the supply of basic medical equipment. So has anything changed?
August 25, 2016
eHealth – changing the role of the insurer – and nudging the insured to get healthy
The health insurance industry faces revolutionary change. eHealth is moving healthcare down the acuity curve, personalising treatment and bringing a new generation of wellness treatments online through mHealth apps. This, in turn, creates data, data that insurers are eager to get their hands on. They increasingly are, by creating their own bespoke apps or partnering with aggregators or popular wellness apps. But, adapting their business models to the data-driven economy, is moving insurers from a passive to an active role in people’s health, and raising tensions with consumer interests.
August 22, 2016
eHealth: towards paperless healthcare systems
“eHealth is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it,” was how one attendee at eHealth in Amsterdam used Dan Ariely’s famous take on big data, summing up where the sector is today. There is more than a grain of truth in the jibe. But there is real progress. By 2018, 18 EU member countries are set to go live with the exchange of patient records and e-prescriptions. Estonia, the only country in the world to have a nation-wide Electronic Health Record (EHR) system built its eHealth system for only €10m –the equivalent of €7.50 per head. And Mhealth, remote monitoring and artificial intelligence all promise to transform the sector over the next decade. We investigate progress to date.
July 1, 2016
NHS evolution presents a new challenge for private sector
The NHS in England is experiencing an unprecedented crisis as funding deficits and waiting times rise. Pressures on the social care industry, where tariffs and costs are tracking divergent paths, are adding to the strain. The solution in the form of a compromise between the Treasury and NHS England guarantees £8bn of extra funding by 2020 in return for efficiency gains of 2-3% a year, leading to new care models that should join services together, improve care and save costs across the system. But what is the role of the private sector in this changing landscape?
