Entire countries are moving from buying medtech and consumables outright to service models using new intermediaries - so-called managed equipment and multi vendor service integrators. These can service, buy, run and finance all medtech products. Pantheon Healthcare Group, backed by a company owned by the Permira Funds, is moving into Saudi Arabia, where it sees huge potential and hopes to be closing many large contracts in the near term. Founder and Director Rob Piconi and Chief Scientific Officer Stephen Hodgson say that the public sector in Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, the UK, Italy and New Zealand are among many developed and emerging market countries that have adopted or are looking to adopt the new healthcare service model.