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UK private hospital nationalised

Bath NHS Foundation Trust has acquired the local hospital of for-profit operator Circle Health, completing a disposal process ordered by competition authorities following Circle's acquisition of competitor BMI Healthcare. Could this be a sign of things to come? 
June 10, 2021

Private players swoop on national hotlines

Outpatient group Gajda-Med has won Poland's multi-million euro contract to deliver first-contact telehealth services for the Polish NHS. It follows a recent trend of private sector companies moving to work on national hotlines, including in Sweden and Switzerland, and it is very controversial where operators already own physical clinics.
June 10, 2021

Life Healthcare soars 17% on aducanumab’s FDA approval

The first FDA approval for an Alzheimer's drug in 20 years, aducanumab, sent the share price of South African and European hospital/imaging group Life Healthcare soaring 17%. The group manufacturers one of only three amyloid tracers for PET-CT diagnosis of the disease and is also the largest for-profit provider of PET-CT scans in Europe.
June 10, 2021

Public health services in Helsinki outsourced to Mehiläinen

Finnish outpatient and occupational healthcare specialist Mehiläinen has been chosen as a provider of public primary health services in Helsinki. This is the first time that public care outsourcing has happened in the capital, Markku Näreneva, Mehiläinen's Director of Public Health Services tells HBI.
June 10, 2021

Is a 2021 recovery for the care home sector realistic?

Across Europe care home operators are optimistic about recovery, with many saying they expect a return to something like normality by the end of 2021. Is this too optimistic? HBI looks at France-based Orpea and Korian, and talks to a market expert to find out more.
June 10, 2021

Investors looking south of the border as NI homecare struggles

Low pay rates for homecare workers in Northern Ireland are under fire, and a campaign to end short 15-minute visits for older people and fee rates of £15 an hour is gathering momentum. South of the border the Republic is proving far more attractive to investors. HBI talks to Mairead Mackle, CEO of the biggest independent Irish homecare provider Homecare Independent Living (HCIL), to find out more.
June 10, 2021

Icade Santé plans IPO as REITs bulk up healthcare

Icade will separately list its healthcare division Icade Santé on the Euronext by the end of this year, becoming Europe's largest healthcare-only REITs. The news comes as Aedifica singles out healthcare as the main spending target of a new €287m raise.
June 10, 2021

Europe’s drive to outpatient surgery: An analysis

The Nordics and UK lead Europe in the move to day-case and outpatient surgery but France is catching up fast, having quadrupled its own outpatient surgery proportion in the past decade, HBI analysis of OECD data shows. The analysis of 17 procedures across 22 countries confirms much of the past anecdotal evidence on the for-profit sector in each country.
June 10, 2021
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