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Private healthcare in Europe is growing fast. Healthcare Europa follows the deals,maps the markets and identifies the opportunities thrown up by reform, technology and consumer demand.

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Helios, Wupperthal
With over 1,000 beds, one of the largest hospitals in western Germany.

FROM "it's private it must be bad" to "Hmm, this is a strategically important industry": The way politicians and policymakers view the private healthcare sector is likely to change quite dramatically over the next five years.
PRIVATE equity deep freeze to continue: I talk to private healthcare dealmaker extraordinaire, Dominic Hollamby at Rothschild.....

PRIVATE equity hits the Spanish care home market: Private equity house Palamon Capital and fund G Square have bought a stake in Grupo SAR....
HUNGARY'S great white hope to hand back hospitals: Hospinvest, the company which dominated hospital privatisation in Hungary, is set to hand back its five hospitals to the public sector as it can no longer make the investments it promised in new equipment.
INTERESTING business models: PGH: Given that US healthcare insurers have hiked their rates by 60% since 2000, how come niche player Preferred Global Health claims to have not raised its rates at all?

INTERVIEW: Peter Eichler, Member of the Board, UNIQA Personenversicherung: The largest healthcare insurer in Austria, UNIQA, is building a pan-East European business. We talk to Peter Eichler, Member of the Board of UNIQA Personenversicherung....
INTERVIEW: Jaroslav Haščák, Penta Investments: No other private equity house is invested in so many types of healthcare services as Slovak and Czech-based Penta Investments....