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".
Mubadala Health, the integrated health network of sovereign investor Mubadala, has added speciality fertility and women's health services to its network and expanded into Saudi with the acquisition of UEMedical. It now claims to be the largest IVF provider in the region.
Progress made on the digital and data front continues to raise hopes of truly integrated healthcare, but that promise relies on infrastructure which can support it. At digital healthcare conference HIMSS21, a panel of European experts warned that in countries like Spain and the UK, infrastructure issues are the biggest impediment to progress.
For-profit hospitals in Malaysia looking to provide a private Covid vaccination service are struggling to source vaccines. HBI talks to Dr Datuk Kuljit Singh, medical director at Prince Court Medical Centre and president of the Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM), to find out more.
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