Whether profit making in the adult care sector should be capped, or the entire sector simply nationalised, is a hot topic in Sweden and Denmark at the moment. HBI speaks to market experts to find out more.
Worries of an oxygen shortage in South Africa and concerns about the Delta variant of Covid-19 might lead to operators stockpiling O2 tanks, and has led to them increasing storage tank capacity. HBI talks to a South Africa-based for-profit hospital operator to find out more.
A Temasek-backed dental services provider based in China has filed for a Hong Kong IPO. The heavily redacted prospectus submitted to the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited gives little away little detail.
Belgian real estate investment trust Aedifica has acquired 16 newly-built specialist residential care centres for people with disabilities in Sweden in a €52m deal. 85% of the acquired sites will be operated by for-profit operators.
Irish HomeCare has announced a plan to recruit 700 new care workers and 50 full time office staff in the next 18 months, responding to a surge in demand for homecare. If it achieves the target it will double its workforce. HBI speaks John Florence, CEO of Irish HomeCare to find out more.
Sovereign wealth funds are making some big entrances and exits in the Asia-Pacific with bids closing in QIC-owned oncology player Icon Group and Singapore's GIC acquiring a minority stake in Sunway hospital group Sunway Healthcare.
Private Equity firm Key Capital Partners (KCP) has sold its majority interest in long-term homecare operator Routes Healthcare, through a secondary buy-out backed by Palatine Private Equity.
The for-profit children's home market in the UK has been criticised for "indefensible" fees by the chair of the Independent Review of Children's Social Care.
Global industrial gas providers Air Liquide and Linde have signed two agreements with development agencies Unitaid and Clinton Health Access Initiative(CHAI), to combat a critical oxygen shortage in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) amid the second COVID wave, supplying gas for a "fair price".
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