Increased demand for treatment from ageing populations, advances in medical technology and constraints on government budgets support the growth of Europe’s private healthcare sector.

Experience and approach
Cinven has been involved in European healthcare for over 20 years. We have built up a sector team with a strong industry network, extensive knowledge of the healthcare marketplace and a track record of successful transactions.

Across Europe, ageing populations combined with poor diet and lifestyle are increasing demand on healthcare systems. At the same time, advances in medical technology are offering more treatments, raising patients’ expectations and increasing expenditure. These trends support the growth of Europe’s private healthcare sector.

Cinven invests in market-leading, growing, cash-generative companies. Key areas include:

• Medical services that can be provided more cheaply than the fully-costed equivalent within the public sector, helping to reduce government expenditure;
• Investing in companies whose revenues are government backed or covered by medical insurance and hence more resilient;
• Developing and transferring best practices between healthcare businesses, based on comparisons of global healthcare markets and management practices;
• The clinically important sector of diagnostics and medical technology.