The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress – Europe is taking place 19-20 May, 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. This annual event is the only major international forum that convenes over 400 leaders from all sectors of health care to share the best practices and successful initiatives for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe. The 2010 [...]
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Handicare Consolidates Position In The Accessibility Market – Growth Story Continues
Following on from the Freelift and Minivator Handicare acquisitions, the company has acquired 15 million NOK Norwegian company KWS Rehab AS. In addition to the obvious synergies this provides Handicare with additional access to the growing private market. More here:
Thomas Rossnagel – Sunrise Medical – Premium Focus Plus Maximum Efficiency
Thomas Rossnagel has in his relatively short tenure at Sunrise as CEO (he was formally Sunrise European President) put his characteristic formula of higher value added, targeted product lines – together with maximum operational effectiveness in serving customers best – into practice. He is well known for having done this very effectively in Europe. Sunrise [...]
EasyJet Sucks – Marie-Patricia Hoarau – 38 – In A Wheelchair Ejected From Flight
Marie-Patricia Hoarau, a wheelchair user, was ejected from an EasyJet flight from Paris to Nice in France because she did not have somebody travelling with her. EasyJet allegedly citing so called European regulations has said that they ejected her because of European regulations. Say what?? They had let her fly before with no issues. All [...]
German Health Minister Philipp Roesler – To Slam Pharma – (Wheelchairs And Homecare Next)?
New German Health Minister Takes Aim At Traditional Pharma Companies. Newly appointed German Healthcare Minister Philipp Roesler – liberal – Free Democratic Party in likely move to break big pharma stronghold and submit new products to insurance pricing scrutiny and impose an “efficiency and clinical effectiveness /outcomes” pricing performance ratio. Not totally dissimilar to the [...]
Bridgepoint Strengthens European HealthCare Portfolio With CARE UK Acquisition
Bridgepoint will be concluding the acquisition of UK care services provider Care UK. Care UK provides care services through it’s facilities as well as in the growing home care sector. In addition they are a provider of NHS Walk-In centers. The acquisition is valued at 309 million Euro (about 460 million US Dollars). Jamie Wyatt, [...]
Some Sanctimonious And Some Not So Sanctimonious NHS Doctors Writing in the BMJ – British Medical Journal
Here is a thread from The BMJ where NHS physicians enter into the argument of the value (moral, ethical and commercial) of medical (pharmaceutical) sales reps. The original letter from Dr Shane O’Hanlon starts like this: It was switching to decaffeinated coffee that started it all. In a flash of lucidity I realised the dubious [...]
Homecare Market France Up-trend Versus Previous Reimbursement Challenge (French – English)
Reimbursement pressures subside in France – French homecare market a growth opportunity – cautious optimism… Bastide, a French public traded homecare provider reports revenue up move of 3,5% Q2 2009 – 2010. This follows the troublesome legislative change in “les Etablissements d’Hébergement pour Personnes Agées Dépendantes (EHPAD)” (read Institutional reimbursement), the negative effect of which [...]
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