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UK Home Office plans threaten overseas recruitment

The UK’s care sector has become heavily dependent on foreign nations for its healthcare workforce. With new proposals from the Home Office restricting whether families can accompany some workers coming to the UK, HBI speaks to two operators to hear what impact the plans could have.
January 25, 2024

Interview: Rebekah Cresswell, CEO, Priory

With a workforce on its knees, it is little surprise that the prospect of ‘care as a career' is becoming an increasingly difficult reality. HBI speaks to UK mental health and social care provider Priory’s CEO Rebekah Cresswell about the government’s latest reforms, and how staff retention can be improved even when times are tough.
January 19, 2024

UK tightens foreign recruitment visas

This week, the UK’s Home Secretary James Cleverly announced government plans to tighten health and care worker visas. HBI speaks to a global workforce expert to understand what this attempt to prioritise ‘British talent first’ will mean for operators already facing a workforce crisis.
December 8, 2023

Reforms enable Ambea to raise its social care presence in Denmark

Ambea Group, a major quoted Scandinavian care provider, has been actively buying social care companies in Denmark. We look at why Ambea has been buying in a country which has a history of hostility to for-profit health care and now has a leftist, Social Democrat government.
July 21, 2022

CareTech founders looking to delist

The founders of listed UK specialist social care group Caretech are hatching a scheme to take the company private, HBI hears. Meanwhile, the UK's competition watchdog says child social care companies are making 'excessive profits'.
March 10, 2022

PE buys complex childcare in Ireland

Private equity firm Cardinal Capital Group has bought Ashdale Care, which provides specialist therapeutic care for children with complex behavioural needs in Ireland.
September 9, 2021

Aedifica continues Northwest Europe expansion

Belgian healthcare REIT Aedifica has been expanding and made acquisitions in Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland amounting to €151 million. HBI breaks down its latest spends.
August 5, 2021
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