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Van Gelder to quit Mediq

Marc van Gelder, the 52-year-old CEO of Mediq, the international distributor and direct-to-consumer medicalised homecare player, is to step down little more than a year after private equity house Advent took the group private for €775m in early 2013. His replacement has yet to be found.
January 30, 2014

UPS expands pan-European logistics

UPS has recently bought CEMELOG, a Budapest-based logistics hub specialising in medtech and pharma. We talk to Daniel Gagnon, Director of Healthcare Logistics & Strategy for UPS Europe, about the company’s strategy and the impact on distribution and healthcare services.
July 9, 2013

Fraud police target private sector in Lombardy

In Italy, a corruption scandal in the region of Lombardy has exploded into the private healthcare sector. The Guardia di Finanza - the Ministry of Finance’s branch of the police force - is investigating staff and offices in private clinics in Varese, while in Milan regional director of healthcare services Carlo Lucchina has had his offices raided. Indictments handed down by the Italian courts have hit the heads of local Aziende Sanitari Locali (ASLs), the local-level purchasers of healthcare services, as well as clinic directors and politicians.
January 4, 2013

Spain and Italy improve payment terms to providers

Most Spanish regions are now paying healthcare service providers in 60-90 days. Even in Italy, the situation is improving, with troubled healthcare region Lazio pioneering a web portal that makes debt securitisation much easier.
September 21, 2012

GHD Gesundheits signing big deals in nutrition

German homecare provider GHD Gesundheits, the market leader with 140,000 patients and over €300 million in revenue in 2011, has signed a distribution deal with Nestlé. GHD, owned by private equity house IK Invest, now has the exclusive distribution rights to Nestlé's enteral nutrition products in Germany - and not only in a homecare setting, but also for wholesale to hospitals. We take a look at how this will help GHD and how it will affect the German homecare market.
July 13, 2012

Interview: Jose Perdomo, Global eHealth Business Director, Telefonica

Spanish telecom giant Telefónica recently presented its new telehealth initiative at a media conference in London, with some impressive claims. The company says that its has replicated the very impressive (albeit contested) results of the British Whole Systems Demonstrator trial in Spain. Its 2015 revenue target for its telehealth division is €600 million, while the potential UK market is apparently €2 billion. We talk to Jose Perdomo, global eHealth director for Telefónica, to find out more.
July 13, 2012

New cancer centre for Romania

What is claimed to be the first specialised private cancer hospital in Romania has just opened in Brasov. We talk to the doctor behind the project, Aurel Tudose.
June 21, 2012

Home dialysis in France set to soar

Home dialysis in France could more than double as the authorities liberalise the sector. Home care groups are keen to enter the field. We also look at how home care is developing in France.
April 17, 2012

Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?

Set up a business in July 2011 with a medtech product, buy a small UK ambulance business, IPO on the Frankfurt stock market in October and then make more acquisitions through bond issues. Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?...
January 10, 2012
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