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  Hospitals off the agenda until 2015
Jan 27, 2012
Hospital privatisation looks unlikely in the Netherlands until 2015.
  Swiss DRGs clear as mud
Jan 27, 2012
The introduction of Swiss DRGs on January 1, 2012 is proving particularly fraught. Different insurers have negotatiing different rates with different hospitals. Where insurers and hospitals have failed to agree, individual cantons have stepped in and set prices. Some prices are secret. It is all very unSwiss.
  Tough times in Portugal
Jan 26, 2012
The Portuguese government is seeking to slash NHS expenditure by nearly 12% in a single year, cutting the budget of just over €8.6bn by €1bn. How and what will be the impact on the private sector?
  Happy outcome for German labs?
Jan 25, 2012
It looks as though the German diagnostic lab industry is close to reaching an agreement with the national Kassenärztliche Vereinigung on rates for the 89% of the population with statutory insurance. Meanwhile, the threat of big, unilateral cuts from the regions is receding.
  Thierry Alliott quits at IP Sante
Jan 23, 2012
The founder of Initiatives pour la Sante, Thierry Alliott, has quit as CEO of the company which is one of the pioneers of medicalised homecare in France.
 
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