Outsourcing

 

Finnish SOTE reform ‘could create more outsourcing opportunities’

In July 2021, Finland’s leftist parliament passed the long-awaited SOTE reform to its healthcare system, which amalgamated 309 municipal health authorities into 21 much larger ‘welfare regions’. HBI speaks to analysts and operators to find out what impact the reform is having on the for-profit sector.
February 17, 2022

Stanley Capital acquires DSS

Stanley Capital, the London-based private equity fund, is to buy Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Services Solutions ("DSS") from Clario, a global clinical trials player. "DDS" specializes in pharmacovigilance - the assessment and monitoring of interactions between drugs and their effects on the human body. HBI talks to Simon Cottle, the founding partner at Stanley Capital.
February 3, 2022

Public health services in Helsinki outsourced to Mehiläinen

Finnish outpatient and occupational healthcare specialist Mehiläinen has been chosen as a provider of public primary health services in Helsinki. This is the first time that public care outsourcing has happened in the capital, Markku Näreneva, Mehiläinen's Director of Public Health Services tells HBI.
June 10, 2021

Interview: Mark Chapman, International CEO, Life Healthcare

What are South African hospital group Life Healthcare's plans for its international division, mainly comprised of pan-European imaging operator Alliance Medical? In a long and wide-ranging discussion, Chapman talks about expansion in South Africa and one to two new countries, 'winners and losers' in the imaging AI market, tariff pressure across Europe and what the first new potential drug therapy for Alzheimer's in 18 years means for its PET-CT business.
March 24, 2021

Which UK private hospitals earned the most from £2bn NHS block-booking?

NHS England will have spent around £2bn on buying capacity and services from the private hospital sector for COVID-19 related services in the last 12 months, according to recently-released public documents. We break out the figures to reveal which operators earned the most and how the picture changed in Q4. 
March 18, 2021

NHS reform could give patients choice to seek private care

Population health is at the centre of a new NHS England reform that will give purchasing power to local, integrated health bodies across the UK. At first glance, the white paper points to less work for the private sector, but a new procurement system could tip it towards the system seen in Europe, where the local body often acts as a payor and the patient has a much wider choice of provider.
February 11, 2021

Regulator: ‘Politics played no role’ in Mehilainen-Pihlajalinna decision

The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority's (FCCA) surprise decision to oppose the merger of Mehilainen and Pihlajalinna has nothing to do with the changing political climate around the privatisation of healthcare, its merger control director tells HBI. She also explains why you can't compare it to the merger of Terveystalo and Attendo in 2018. 
October 1, 2020
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