Optegra, the UK’s second largest private ophthalmology group, has bought a new clinic in Yorkshire, bringing its total number of facilities across the country to 25.
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Fleur Agema, has found herself following the same journey as that taken by her predecessor, Conny Holder, and has abandoned plans to prohibit private equity investment in Dutch healthcare.
This infographic focuses on Polish and Central and Eastern European healthcare expenditure patterns, revealing significant differences from Western European counterparts.
The UK branch of British multinational healthcare company Bupa is launching a new direct-to-consumer subscription service for primary care, giving customers access to same-day appointments with a private GP, starting at just over £200 per year.
Over the coming years and decades an increasing amount of care will be delivered to patients in their homes. New devices and wearables that can collect health data from people whilst they’re at home and healthcare’s digitalisation trend are opening up new possibilities, both for prevention and for providing better and more efficient care to those with chronic conditions.
Watching Paris host first the Olympic Games and now the Paralympic Games has been a pleasure that I’m sure many of you will have enjoyed this summer. The Games, which have been organised to be the most sustainable ever, have proven the ultimate showcase for a city which will always be synonymous with enlightenment and of course romance.
Private equity (PE) is increasingly investing in healthcare due to high returns and societal impact. HBI recently reported on the rebound in European healthcare investments, with ~€9 billion across 154 deals by August 2024, signalling renewed sector momentum after 2023’s decline.
In this HBI News Round Up we cover the investment summary of pan-European firm Affidea's Romanian branch the first half of 2024, global leader in RNA-based genomic diagnostics BioNexus Gene Lab Corp’s investment into a pioneering Malaysian healthcare technology firm, Ascension Innovation Sdn Bhd, and Portuguese hospital group CUF's profits results for the first half of 2024.
German multinational medtech firm Siemens Healthineers is going to acquire the diagnostic division of Swiss-based multinational pharmaceutical company, Novartis AG.
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