Private sector penetration of care home markets varies across Europe. This week's infographic shows how care home ownership divides between the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors in European countries.
Executive chairman Jos Lamers has told HBI that Covid sales continue to rise in Q1 and Q2 2021. They certainly boosted 2020 results at the international lab and imaging group owned by Apax Partners. Like rivals Synlab and Sonic, the business continues to roar away.
Turkish healthcare group Acibadem has entered Serbia for the first time, acquiring a 70% stake in hospital operator Bel Medic. HBI speaks to a Serbian financial specialist consultant to find out more.
Shares in listed European care groups Korian and Orpea dropped slightly on publication of their FY2020 results – but despite a difficult year there are reasons for both companies to be hopeful of better times ahead.
PE firm Triton has agreed to "invest" in Dutch, Nordic and German ambulatory clinic operator Bergman Clinics, possibly implying it is not buying control from NPM Capital and the Malensteins who are retaining stakes. Triton would not comment on the size of the stake nor on our speculation it plans to merge Bergman with Nordic operator Aleris.
Netherlands-based ambulatory and ophthalmology clinic group Bergman Clinics, currently exploring a sale that could raise over €1bn, has acquired German aesthetic surgical treatments platform Medical One.
Preliminary bids for Dutch, Nordic and German ambulatory and ophthalmology clinic group Bergman Clinics were due last week, HBI is told, with big-hitting PE firms expected to make offers.
Imaging AI solutions which can read images just as well as radiologists are now demonstrably effective medical products that will revolutionise the medical imaging industry forever. $1.5bn in VC funding has been ploughed into companies developing solutions whose tech promises to transform diagnosis and improve operational efficiency. We talk to seven of them who've commercialised products in 2019/20, operators using them, and look at the sector in detail in this long-read feature.
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