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Recent Articles in News
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Advent set to buy Euroclinic as public health implodes in Romania
Sep 2, 2010
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Private equity group Advent looks set to buy healthcare insurer Eureko’s Bucharest Euroclinic hospital for around €12m or 1.6-1.8 times book value and nearly twice sales. It will be added to Advent's CMU operation. Meanwhile, private sector maternity is booming following a fatal fire in a maternity ward in a public hospital.
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Alliance Medical for sale at knockdown price
Sep 2, 2010
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Alliance Medical, Europe’s largest medical imaging provider has been valued at just £300m-£340m and is likely to be sold shortly. There are three options for the business, which has been badly hit by falling margins in Italy and which announced the departure of its chief executive, Alan Pilgrim, in early August.
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EQT funds Roeser
Sep 2, 2010
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EQT has helped finance a management buy out at Roeser Gruppe, which claims to be the largest distributor to German hospitals and may expand abroad. In fact, the German market is dominated by large buying groups.
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No tsunami for Germany
Jul 23, 2010
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A repeat of the mass hospital privatisations of 1995-2005 looks increasingly unlikely. In fact, there may be almost no privatisation in the next few years. This will force big German groups such as Rhoen Klinikum to look abroad argues JKan Hacker, managing partner at Oberender and Partner, a German healthcare services consultancy.
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Growth slows as recession bites
Jul 23, 2010
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The bad news is that our latest survey of the top 100 hospitals in Europe has found that top managers expect growth rates to drop over the next year across Southern Europe. The good news? Outside of Greece and, possibly, Spain and Portugal, further actual declines don’t look likely.
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