Italy

 

San Donato and Garafalo look abroad

San Donato and Garofal, two of the largest Italian hospital chains, are planning to move abroad and are looking at Russia, the Middle East and North Africa.

Ribon sets up new healthcare fund

Denis Ribon,former global head of healthcare at 3i, has set up a new business Archimed to invest in healthcare services, medtech and pharma in Western Europe.

Interview: Mark Hellowell, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Hellowell is a healthcare academic who specialises in PPPs, evaluating their performance around the world, consulting with development agencies and acting as a special adviser to the Health Select Committee in the British House of Commons. He also lectures on healthcare reform to a diverse group of postgraduate students, many of them from developing countries. We talk to him about the role private healthcare companies can, and are, playing in the developing and developed worlds, the future for PPPs, and whether they are “a good thing”.

Report: Healthcare procurement – low status, fragmented, impotent. So what is the solution?

We report from Healthcare Procurement Europe, the first pan-European forum to bring together procurement professionals, suppliers and policymakers to look at how procurement in Europe could be improved. This one-day event, held in November 2013 in London and sponsored by AT Kearney and Mesa Medical, consisted of a series of presentations followed by workshops.

Vitaldent to hit Poland

Vitaldent, the big family-owned dentistry chain operating across Spain and Italy, has taken out a €100m loan with Intermediate Capital Group. The group plans to grow sales nearly 50% over the next five years to €650m. It plans to do this, in part, by entering Poland. We talk to Vitaldent adviser Reiner Loeslein about strategy and business models.

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