KKR's move to buy CVC's majority stake in French hospital operator Elsan and pre-empt an auction process is "a done deal", a well-placed source tells HBI.
NMC acting CEO Michael Davis speaks publicly for the first time about the future of under-fire NMC Health. In this exclusive interview, we ask about a possible sale of all or part of the business, and whether and how NMC might recover from its present position.
Now that Steward Health Care has been bought by its doctors, what future does it face in Malta where the deal it inherited to run almost half the country’s public hospitals had attracted scrutiny? HBI talks exclusively to Dr Armin Ernst, CEO and President of Steward Health Care International.
HBI hears that Dutch and Nordic ambulatory and ophthalmology clinic chain Bergman Clinic is looking to acquire two substantial outpatient ophthalmology chains in Germany. This would mark its entry into the country’s ophthalmology market – and a significant one at that. We talk to a source about the targets, the price, and what this means for the wider market. Longer-term Bergman itself is likely to sell.
Patient footfall for outpatient care across the world has all but stopped. Exclusive data from DocPlanner shows which specialities have seen the biggest drop in appointments booked and where telemedicine is really picking up some of the slack. We assess this against outpatient volumes in Singapore during SARS to see when it might pick up.
South African hospital group Life Healthcare has postponed its sale of Polish subsidiary Scanmed despite already receiving non-binding bids, due to the coronavirus.
HBI hears that a meeting between the Brazilian public healthcare sector and private hospitals recently took place in preparation for an escalation of coronavirus cases.
After months of rumours around how Babylon would enter the US market, HBI can exclusively reveal a jointly-run app between the UK-based telehealth player and not-for-profit US-based hospital group Ascension has been quietly launched.
Administrators have been appointed for a UK-based cosmetic surgery group after UK tax authority HMRC filed a High Court petition to wind up the company. The business, however, still continues, under a slightly different name.
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