PureHealth, an Abu Dhabi group which is effectively state-owned, is set to buy Circle Health, the UK's second largest hospital group by revenue, for $1.2bn. The deal follows PureHealth's acquisition of a minority stake in a major US hospital chain. It comes as revenue from both private pay and NHS outsourcing surges in the UK.
This summer, a new immigration reform was passed to make it easier for workers from non-EU countries to relocate to Germany. An Indian organisation plans to train 2,000 nurses for the German market. HBI speaks to experts to find out who will make the most of the changes and if it’s the best course of action to combat labour shortages.
UK nursing home operator HC-One has launched FlexForce, a flexible working initiative that hopes to ease staffing shortages by improving the sector’s notoriously low retention rates. The scheme is being rolled out to 269 homes, following a successful six month trial this June across the north of England and Scotland.
M&A in the UK's for-profit hospital market is back in full swing. As well as the sale of the UK's largest hospital group, Circle, August saw the acquisition of One Healthcare, a small group which operates two multi-speciality hospitals in Kent and Hertfordshire, by Phoenix Hospital Group, a slightly larger UK operator.
Two weeks ago we published an article looking at how inflation has impacted the health and elderly care markets of the UK, France and Germany. In our second instalment of this series we look at inflation's impact on Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
Digital unicorn-turned-mouse Babylon Health has placed two of its UK divisions into administration and reportedly sold its clinical services business to US digital health firm eMed Healthcare.
For nearly 20 years Broomberg has been intimately involved in the development of one of the world’s most sticky health care apps. If you have life or health care cover from Vitality or one of its partners you have access to an app which can reward you for exercise, diet, online or physical check ups with a range of rewards, ranging from a weekly free coffee to 50% off gym membership and discounts on flights. And in South Africa, even cheaper healthy food! Just like airlines, Vitality has different levels of status. The difference is you can move from Blue to Platinum with Vitality without spending a penny - just by better diet and exercise.
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