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UK-based care provider plans for growth with new investor

Exemplar Health Care, a UK-based provider of specialist nursing care for adults with acute physical, mental and learning disabilities, has a new investor - and is making big plans to develop its business as a result.
August 9, 2016

Public patients spoil Luz Saúde’s party

EBITDA margins for the first half of 2016 fell at the Portuguese hospital group Luz Saúde, as its Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, which treats public patients, saw its EBITDA margins go negative, under the weight of increased oncology and HIV patients.
August 5, 2016

New group forms France’s fifth largest hospital operator

Based in central France, Sisio is born out of a merger between three regional groups and the acquisition of a fourth. The result is France’s fifth largest hospital operator, a privately owned organisation with €450m revenues. We speak to Sébastien Mounier, one of its founders.
August 5, 2016

Interview: Andrew Wyatt, COO, and Corrina Kane, head of product marketing, Lumeon

Care Pathway Management (CPM) software administers health systems, connects data and orchestrates the patient’s journey using predetermined and rigorously analysed rules. It claims to improve clinical capacity and patient satisfaction, whilst slashing paperwork and billing overheads. Lumeon is a leader in this field. It’s working with many of the UK’s top commercial operators and close to signing with the NHS directly. Last week, it launched its own care pathway marketplace. Lumeon is alternatively, a revolutionary pioneer, or a jumped-up admin system. We investigate.
August 4, 2016

SAR’s sale on hold for the summer

Sources claim that negotiations between PAI Partners and private equity houses G-Square and Palamon to buy Spain's elderly care market leader SARquavitae are "progressing well towards a deal, but have been put on hold until September". On another note, we hear that Higinio Raventós, founder and president of SAR until 2014, passed away this morning.
August 4, 2016

Who’d buy Cerba?

Next in line in the big European lab sell-off is the French reference lab Cerba Healthcare. Cerba has plenty of potential for the right match, but with risks piling up, the price of 12-13 times EBITDA quoted in the French press looks dear. We give our analysis.
August 2, 2016

Interview: Ignacio Riesgo, independent healthcare consultant

We speak to Ignacio Riesgo, previously a healthcare leader at PwC in Madrid, and currently an independent advisor to both public and private providers. Riesgo muses on the industrialization of healthcare in his latest book Médicos o robots: La medicina que viene (Rasche).
August 2, 2016

Harty news for Spire in London

Bryan Harty has left the Irish private hospital Blackrock Clinic after 16 years as CEO, and will start a new role at Spire Healthcare on the 12th August, managing a new hospital development in London.
August 1, 2016

Columbia Asia raises US$101m for global growth

Mitsui & co. of Japan has invested US$101m in the pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia, reports VC Circle. The money will go towards Asian developments, and the group’s first African hospital: a clinic in Nairobi branded Columbia Africa.
July 29, 2016
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