Pan-European laboratory chain Unilabs has bought CGC Genetics, a medical genetics testing company in Portugal. Philipp Manser, CFO at Unilabs, tells Healthcare Europa that the group wants to position itself as a reference medical genetics provider.
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Nicola Bedin quits at San Donato
Nicola Bedin, 40 year-old CEO of big Italian hospital group San Donato has quit “to pursue other entrepreneurial activities”.
June 26, 2017
Three key future trends for UK private healthcare
Expect more STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans), more self-pay and more salaried hospital doctors in the UK. That’s according to several speakers at the Private Healthcare Summit in London.
June 23, 2017
Irish recruiter Cpl buys UK healthcare specialist but issues profit warning
Ireland-based recruiter Cpl Resources has acquired 91% of UK healthcare specialist recruitment company RIG Healthcare Group for £8.1m (€9.3m). But the group also issued a profit warning due to the uncertainty caused by Brexit. We speak to Cpl’s CEO Anne Heraty.
June 21, 2017
Madrid investigates PPP hospitals
Yet again another Spanish private public partnerships is receiving bad press from left wing and communist politicians.
June 21, 2017
WhatClinic targets ten-fold growth in German enquiries
Ireland-based private clinic comparison website WhatClinic has spent €1m on the launch of a new sister platform in German in the hope to attract more patients seeking treatment abroad. The group tells Healthcare Europa it expects a ten-fold growth in the number of enquiries from patients in Germany in the first year.
June 21, 2017
Now Healthcare take in £4m investment – set to launch medication adherence app
UK-telehealth start-up Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has received a £4m minority investment from Medicash, provider of medical cash plans. We speak to CEO Lee Dentith.
June 20, 2017
Mehilainen on course for IPO
The private equity owners of Finland's largest healthcare group Mehilainen have tasked JP Morgan with testing the M&A waters, but a public listing in Helsinki remains the most likely outcome.
June 19, 2017
Capio invests in AI-powered primary care assessment
Pan-European group Capio is introducing a new digital triage system in all its primary care centres in Sweden - and investing in AI. What does it hope to achieve?
June 19, 2017
Number of EU nurses registering to work in the UK drops by 96% post Brexit
There has been a 96% drop in the number of nurses from the EU registering to work in the UK since July last year. Healthcare Europa has been talking to operators and consultants about what effect this might have.
June 15, 2017
Insight & Interviews
Interview: Roman Rittweger, founder and CEO Ottonova
Having raised almost €40m, the first entirely digital private insurer is about to launch in Germany. So what is the strategy behind the product, and what does it tell us about digital and health care services?
June 19, 2017
Interview: Insurers are taking the lead on digital health and we’re helping them, says Wellmo CEO
A group of health tech groups in Finland are joining together to offer insurers digital tools that work in tandem, promote their brands and customers will use. We ask the CEO of one of the groups why they are banding together, and what they hope to achieve.
June 13, 2017
Interview: Luke Savage, from American REIT MPT, has “no ceiling” on funds for European acquisitions
American REIT Medical Properties Trust is entering new European markets, with “no ceiling” on funds and a new office in Luxembourg, the company's director of European operations and acquisitions tells Healthcare Europa.
June 9, 2017
What do you do when medical professionals go off the tracks?
Every year, some 12,000 medical and care professionals are subject to serious investigation by the three largest professional bodies in the UK alone. So how do you deal with the doctor or nurse who starts abusing colleagues, who has sex with a patient, who makes mistakes or lies on their CV? We talk to Jonathan Coe, who runs The Clinic for Boundaries Studies, which offers an intensive course to get perpetrators to open their eyes, take responsibility and change their behaviour.
June 8, 2017
Interview: Ronald Van Kessel, Maron Healthcare
With Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) looking to tap into the Medical Office Building (MOB) market in Germany and the Netherlands in particular, Ronald Van Kessel, director at MOB manager Maron Healthcare, tells us about the advantages of investing into the Dutch primary care market.
May 30, 2017
Interview: Eyal Gura tells us how Zebra Medical Vision has set its gaze on revolutionizing healthcare
Zebra Medical Vision is an Israeli health tech startup using AI to find patterns camouflaged in medical images. It has developed software solutions for 11 conditions and is seeking out providers to take them on. At the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month, we spoke to Eyal Gura, co-founder and chairman, about Zebra and also KolGene, which promises to Uberize the genetics market.
May 25, 2017
Our round-up of the best health tech innovation from Health2.0 Europe
It’s difficult to sort the hype from the reality in digital health. So we’ve been along for you to Health2.0 Europe to mine the coal face of health tech innovation.
May 10, 2017
HBI 2017: Are non-specialised hospitals doomed?
As payers move away from rewarding volume towards rewarding value, care delivery is increasingly organised outside of hospitals. But to what extent is it happening? Speakers at the 2017 HBI conference suggested that while it is too early too announce the death of hospital care, operators are facing some severe disruptions.
April 21, 2017
HBI 2017: The European Investment Landscape
The year 2017 should be a good one for the European healthcare services industry, with more money from more sources backing the best management teams and building international businesses, say panellists at HBI 2017. That is despite a fall in deal volume in 2016 and signs that 2017 may see lower levels..
April 20, 2017
Interview: Neil van Heerden, Chief Marketing Officer at Caremondo and FairMed Online
Singapore-based second opinions group FairMed Online bought the Munich-based Caremondo medical tourism agency three months ago. That gives FairMed control over a patient pathway that stretches from a new diagnosis to treatment - but also across the world. Neil van Heerden, chief marketing officer at FairMed, told us what’s next for the rapidly growing online player.
April 12, 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?
