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French postal service expanding into medicalised homecare

French state-owned postal services giant La Poste has increasingly been moving into healthcare with the acquisition of France's fifth largest medicalised homecare provider and more recently a medical adherence app. We speak to a consultant who has covered French healthcare for decades, about the acquisition and the wider market.

Care UK to sell nursing home arm

Care UK, the Bridgepoint-owned UK care group is looking to sell its nursing home division. Advisory sources say that the division had 2017 sales of £290m with £40m EBITDA. 

Capio turns to digital as 2017 profits drop

A strong Q4 wasn’t enough to save pan-European private healthcare operator Capio from an almost 9% drop in profit for FY2017. Soon-to-depart CEO Thomas Berglund says the group is in a good position, with plans to restructure this year, and a greater focus on digital. But is this enough?

Aster DM to IPO with US$1.5bn valuation

GCC and Indian healthcare group Aster DM is finally set to IPO on February 12-16 and is seeking to raise US$150m for a valuation of US$1.5bn - figures 50% and 40% lower than when it filed two years ago.

FREE BLOG The problem with investing in emerging markets

Private equity group Abraaj has been cleared of misappropriating funds from its US$1bn Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund by the outside accountants hired by its investors following reports money had been mishandled. The saga highlights the difficulties and delays in deploying capital in emerging markets.

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