The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) looks set to force several new stipulations on the UK’s veterinary sector. The CMA’s proposals are primarily focused on increasing transparency for customers, by forcing practices to publish full lists of prices and make it clear whether they are part of a chain, prompting some relief from investors concerned about more draconian intervention.
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Royal London Asset Management launches £1bn UK care home REIT
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), a UK investment firm that invests across a variety of types of assets including securities and real estate, has launched a dedicated healthcare REIT with £1 billion (~€1.15 billion) of committed capital.
October 9, 2025
Amethyst enters Portugal
Pan-European oncology group Amethyst has entered the Portuguese market. It has acquired Júlio Teixeira, a private Portuguese oncology provider consisting of two clinics.
October 9, 2025
HBI Deals+Insights briefing October 2025: Deals+Insights members
Click here to download your October 2025 Deals+Insights briefing. October’s edition features HBI’s fifth annual ranking of the Top 100 healthcare groups across EMEA, but with a slight twist: this year’s ranking focuses exclusively on hospital groups, rather than all healthcare services groups. The edition covers two huge M&A deals in the European generics space: […]
October 8, 2025
HBI Deals+Insights briefing October 2025: Intelligence members
Click here to download your October 2025 Deals+Insights briefing. October’s edition features HBI’s fifth annual ranking of the Top 100 healthcare groups across EMEA, but with a slight twist: this year’s ranking focuses exclusively on hospital groups, rather than all healthcare services groups. The edition covers two huge M&A deals in the European generics space: […]
October 8, 2025
Brazilian hospital group Athena Saude for sale
Athena Saude, a Brazilian hospital group, is reportedly being put up for sale by its private equity owner Patria Investments.
October 6, 2025
Canary Care launches second iteration of activity monitoring system
UK-based scale-up Canary Care has released the second iteration of its intelligent activity monitoring system. Ian Burgess, the company’s Managing Director, tells us this will be the first product of this type that can integrate with energy appliances such as smart meters, and will help care providers and health researchers to improve care with the data it collects.
October 6, 2025
FREE BLOG Will AI replace doctors?
This week I attended the AI in Health Summit, an event hosted by Economist Impact at the Royal College of Physicians in London focused on the topic of how AI will impact healthcare. Of all the questions and issues discussed throughout the day, one stood out both in terms of the frequency with which it came up and the strength of feeling it elicited from speakers: whether we should expect to see doctors lose their jobs to AI.
October 2, 2025
French labs group Biogroup looking for strategic buyer
Biogroup, France’s second largest diagnostic labs group by revenue, is looking for a new owner.
October 2, 2025
Sana Kliniken sells procurement arm to Nordic Capital-backed Vivecti Group
Sana Kliniken, Germany’s third largest for-profit hospital group by revenue, is selling its procurement arm, Sana Einkauf, to Vivecti Group, a major German healthcare procurement platform that has been owned by private equity firm Nordic Capital since 2018. A procurement expert tells us this deal looks like “a desperate attempt to finally achieve the long-awaited exit for Nordic Capital”.
September 26, 2025
emeis to reduce net debt by €700m through real estate vehicle
Europe’s largest nursing home group emeis plans to raise hundreds of millions of euros to help pay down its huge pile of debt by partially divesting 68 properties it still owns. Rather than simply doing full sale-and-leasebacks of these properties, the group is creating a special real estate investment vehicle to hold the assets, which it will retain a stake in.
September 25, 2025
Interview: Ranjan Singh, CEO and Co-founder, HealthHero
HealthHero is the largest telehealth provider in Europe. In the few years since being founded in 2019, it has managed to consistently grow its revenue at over 30% per annum and achieve a dominant position in four key European markets — the UK, France, Germany and Ireland, in a period when many other players trying to scale in this space have gone bust.
