One theme which came through strongly at Healthcare Europa 2015 was the limit to private acute hospital growth in western Europe. And yet buyers continue to demand higher multiples.
By a long way, German acute hospitals represent the largest healthcare property portfolio in Europe. So far, they have been off limits to property investors. But will it stay that way? We explore some of the issues ahead of the Healthcare Europa 2015 conference, where we have a special session on healthcare property.
Clinica Baviera, Europe’s only quoted ophthalmology group, increased sales by over 3% but with pre-tax profit and EBITDA both down, its overall performance appears to have been hamstrung by its international operations. We speak to Meritxell Pérez de Castro-Acuña, head of investor relations at Clinica Baviera, about its results.
Austrian lab group Lifebrain has completed a new bout of acquisitions across Italy. Three labs have been added to its fold: Salus in Lazio, Euromedical & Lab in Bologna, and Biomedical in Puglia.
Alliance Medical has won a ten year contract for PET CT imaging across the English NHS, which CEO Guy Blomfield reckons is worth at least €300m and which the NHS says will generate an 18% saving. How did Alliance do it, and what other big outsource contracts are coming up in the NHS?
Elderly care groups are expanding into new business models such as the step down market, homecare and domiciliary care to met the needs of Europe’s fast growing elderly population. Here we talk to policymakers, CEOs and academics about innovations and outline the five main trends: the personalisation of care, changes in payers attitude, a shift to homecare, and the emergence of an Eastern European market.
Professor Longo is a long-term analyst of the Italian NHS and the private sector. Here he predicts a boom for the private sector in all forms of post-acute care, explains why he expects private medical insurance to grow steeply and looks at how the private sector is acquiring not-for-profit operators.
We talk to academics and policymakers about TTIP's potential impact on public sector healthcare provision in Europe. Fear, uncertainty and doubt surround the discussions between the European Union and the United States on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its possible impact on public healthcare services.
British private hospitals are the most gung-ho in Europe and the Italians the most pessimistic, according to the inaugural Hospital Sentiment Research report, from GE Capital. The report surveyed 380 senior executives in 8 countries (Europe’s top five plus Switzerland, Australia and Japan). Half worked in the private sector.
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