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Spire sale loses direction

What has happened to Cinven’s sale of Spire, the UK hospital chain? Has the sales process run by Bank of American Merrill Lynch come to a rude halt?
May 23, 2014

Collier quits at BMI

Stephen Collier has quit as CEO of BMI, the UK´s largest hospital group. He is to become a non-executive director and will leave in six months, when a replacement has been found. His departure came the day after BMI’s majority shareholder Netcare announced its results. What does this tell us?
May 22, 2014

Report: Dentistry in Europe

Web-empowered, patient choice, the retreat of state payors, internationalization - what is happening in dentistry will happen in other healthcare service sectors soon. So it is a sector that is worth watching closely. In this, the first part of a 2 part report, we look at how dentistry markets in Europe are changing, look at business models and track consolidation, naming the major players country-by-country. How is the market set to change?
May 22, 2014

Ramsay Santé to buy Generale de Sante

As first revealed exclusively here in early April 2014, Ramsay Healthcare plans to buy control of Generale de Sante, the largest French hospital operator in a bid which values the company at €910m. What do analysts make of the deal?
May 15, 2014

Praktikertjanst launches new website to prove quality

Big Swedish dentistry and primary care group Praktikertjanst has recently launched a new healthcare website, www.godpraktik.se, aimed at demonstrating quality with anecdotal stories about its care. Expect it to launch a range of comprehensive statistics to prove care quality soon.
May 15, 2014

Dentistry platforms fetch high prices

Carlyle, the owners of IDH, the big UK dentistry group, plans to sell or float the group for as much as £1bn. Meanwhile, the largest Finnish dentistry group is subject to a bid and the two largest Scandinavian dentistry chains have just merged. What is the attraction?
May 14, 2014

Praktikertjanst hit by new tax laws

Sweden’s largest primary care and dentist firm is likely to be hard hit by new tax laws, which means that its member doctors and dentists will see their tax burden more or less double. That could lead to another takeover bid or defections. Sales grew 4.7% to SEK9.7bn (€1bn) in 2013.
May 14, 2014

FREE BLOG So who is buying what in Africa?

Recent weeks have seen renewed interest in old mature markets. Companies like Life Healthcare of South Africa and Australian player Ramsay Healthcare have bought in Europe. So who is buying in Africa and what assets have they picked up? The big buyer has been Abraaj Capital, the Dubai private equity house, which sold its stake in Acibadem, the upmarket Turkish chain to IHH in 2013. So what has it bought? In total, it has now made six investments.
May 14, 2014
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