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German and Dutch dentists struggle to make up COVID losses

Dentists in Germany and the Netherlands are playing post-COVID closure catchup as businesses have reopened after the height of the pandemic. One DACH-based operator tells us it may be harder to make up lost ground in these countries than elsewhere.

CVC acquisition ‘would trigger rush of M&A in Greece’

CVC Capital Partners clearly has big plans in Greece. After a slew of acquisitions, it looks poised to up its bid for Ethniki Insurance now that the process has opened up again. HBI talks to a market expert to find out more about a deal which he thinks trigger a wave of activity.

HBI Deals+Insights Briefing August 2020

Click here to see your Deals+Insights briefing for August 2020 So much for a summer recess in Europe. August’s edition sees big-ticket M&A for KKR, CVC, and Biogroup plus REIT activity normalising with the start of a €1.5bn Orpea propco sell-off. HBI also exclusively speaks to the acting CEO of troubled hospital operator NMC Health, […]

HBI Deals+Insights briefing August 2020: Intelligence members

Click here to download Deals+Insights August 2020 So much for a summer recess in Europe. August’s edition sees big-ticket M&A for KKR, CVC, and Biogroup plus REIT activity normalising with the start of a €1.5bn Orpea propco sell-off. HBI also exclusively speaks to the acting CEO of troubled hospital operator NMC Health, alongside Cigna, Median […]

Dentix Italia has 120 days to save the business

Spain's biggest dental chain, Dentix, has won a temporary reprieve from its creditors in Italy, but Dentix Italia must now come up with a recovery plan or find a buyer within the next three months.

Spanish for-profits demand COVID compensation

For-profit hospitals and clinics in Spain are facing bankruptcy and closure unless urgent payment is made for work done and financial difficulties faced during the coronavirus pandemic over the last three months, according to The Spanish Private Health Alliance (ASPE), which represents more than 80% of private hospitals in the country. HBI speaks to a Spanish consultant to find out more.

Elderly care post-Covid: HBI Big Picture Seminar

How has Covid affected the elderly care sector across EMEA? To find out, HBI-365, the new global digital platform, brought together a panel of three: Fredrik Gren, CEO and president, Ambea, a sophisticated and large Pan-Scandinavian care group, Alexei Sidnev, CEO, Senior Group, the largest player in a big emerging market, Russia and Pierre-Emanuel Bercegeay, CEO, Ouihelp, a VC-backed, digital-savvy domiciliary homecare start-up in France. The seminar was followed by the first meeting of our HBI-365 elderly community with a useful roundtable on workforce.

COVID crisis will present rollup opportunities in Greece

Greece has never been the most buoyant of markets for healthcare services operators, with limited PMI penetration and problems in the Greek economy limiting out-of-pocket spending. We speak to a Greece-based consultant to find out more about how COVID is affecting this landscape.

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