Paracelsus, the German and Swiss hospital and reha business has so far failed to find a buyer. Potential buyers say the group which is in the German equivalent of Chapter 11 is overpriced.
Healthcare Europa talks to a well-placed advisor about which German nursing home groups will trade in 2018 - five are cited but anything is possible in this market, he says.
Chinese Insurance giant Ping An is looking to further expand its medical and elderly care businesses as it IPOs its online health platform on the Hong Kong stock exchange, the company said as it announced its 2017 financial results.
We hear that several buyers are aggressively vying to acquire Bridgepoint's Care UK nursing home segment and that second round bids are in, valuing the business at a high multiple.
We talk to contacts in Finland about what the fast-approaching SOTE reforms will mean for a primary care market dominated by the public sector. Both agree that Finland is much better placed to see consolidation of the sector than Sweden when it underwent similar reforms several years ago.
Malaysian hospital group IHH Healthcare has re-launched its takeover offer for Indian hospital operator Fortis. But it's not the only bidder in a web of rumoured takeovers involving buyers with deep pockets from both the Far East and West. We talk to local contacts.
Ongoing and escalating legal battles to stop private insurance price hikes in Chile are hurting profits and plunging the industry into uncertainty, the president of a Chilean insurers association, Rafael Caviedes, tells Healthcare Nova.
Spanish elderly care giant Ballesol is exporting its business model to Mexico. Healthcare Nova speaks to director of operations Antonio Gonzáles-Quirós about this strategy, and the state of the nascent Mexican elderly care market.
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