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Irish health insurance gets post-recession boost

Ireland’s private medical insurance market has been given a boost by international insurer AIG taking over Laya, the second biggest Irish health insurer, formerly owned by Bupa. Meanwhile, the government is to introduce a law which will encourage the young to take out PMI.
February 19, 2015

Australian fertility group Virtus eyes Europe

Australian listed fertility group Virtus Health is expanding its presence in Ireland and plans to move into the UK in 2015, its Irish subsidiary told Healthcare Europa.
January 7, 2015

High bids for Irish hospitals

Private equity house HIG Capital has bid a total €320m for Blackrock Clinic and €70m for the Hermitage our sources have confirmed. The figures look generous. But are these real bids or simply a way of puffing up the value of the two hospitals?
December 3, 2014

Report: An Irish regulatory rainbow after the recent storms?

Planned regulatory changes in Ireland should see 1m more people take out private medical insurance, based on the impact of similar legislation in the Netherlands and Australia. This should improve performance after the private sector over-expanded in the early Noughties and suffered badly in the recent recession. Equity investment in existing providers now starts to make sense. Recent transactions this year have included the sale of The Beacon and the attempted sale of Mount Carmel Hospital by Adam Scott and Jean Redmond of Mansfield Advisors LLP.
November 3, 2014

Permira to build new imaging services provider

Private equity house Permira is backing a merger between Mesa Medical, a Pan-European supplier of third party maintenance and used imaging kit, and Asteral, which is the largest provider of managed equipment services around imaging equipment in the UK. The deal will alarm suppliers like Siemens, GE and Philips.
August 1, 2014

Euromedic appoints HSBC

Imaging services provider Euromedic has appointed HSBC to review the business. Bankers expect this to lead to a sale this autumn.
July 24, 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

Beacon goes for knockdown price

Irish businessman Denis O’Brien has purchased Beacon Hospital in Dublin Ulsterbank, part of the British RBS bank. We look at the price and the prospects for the sector in Ireland as the government published a white paper on its planned introduction of universal healthcare.
April 25, 2014

Ribon sets up new healthcare fund

Denis Ribon,former global head of healthcare at 3i, has set up a new business Archimed to invest in healthcare services, medtech and pharma in Western Europe.
March 28, 2014
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