From 1 October 2025, German GPs will no longer be subject to budget limits, allowing full reimbursement for primary care services — including home visits.
Cinven, the international private equity firm, entered exclusive negotiations last week to acquire French clinical nutrition specialist Nutrisens from Sagard MidCap, a global multi-strategy alternative asset management firm. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal remains subject to regulatory approval.
Spire, the UK’s largest for-profit hospital group, plans to hand out redundancy packages to about 400 of its ~14,000 employees (~2.5%) as part of an initiative to create operational efficiencies and have a higher proportion of bank (i.e. part-time) workers. The jobs being cut include clinical as well as admin staff, but the group says there will be no reduction in patient-facing clinical hours.
Air Liquide, a French multinational company supplying gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare, has acquired two outpatient intensive care companies, intensivLeben GmbH and AP-Sachsen GmbH, both based in Germany.
Healthscope, Australia’s second largest private hospital group, has received 10 non-binding indicative takeover offers, according to its CEO. This comes after the group’s US private equity owner Brookfield handed over control of the business to creditors after failing to resolve its financial issues.
Sanofi, the French global pharmaceutical and healthcare company, has announced it will acquire Vigil Neuroscience, Inc., a publicly traded clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.
The ongoing elections in Poland, with both candidates competing neck and neck, are expected to have major consequences for the country’s health system — but not necessarily in the way one might expect. Liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform, narrowly won the first round on 18 May with […]
In this week’s infographic, HBI takes a look at the healthcare services mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2025 across Europe’s top 5 markets: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain. Care Homes & Residential Care accounted for approximately 37% of all healthcare services M&A deals in 2025. The vast majority of this activity […]
In an increasingly competitive and constrained healthcare landscape, in which local opportunities to grow and seek investment are becoming more difficult, Academic Medical Centres (AMC) are increasingly pursuing international expansion and investment partnerships in emerging healthcare markets. Renan Baroukh, Chief Finance & Investment Officer at Nexus Gulf Healthcare, a specialised healthcare investment and development platform […]
Keys Group, a UK provider of child and adult education and care services, has acquired ADHD 360, one of the UK’s largest private providers of services for people with ADHD.
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