The proposed takeover of UK-based hospital chain Spire is now off the cards, as global Australia-based group Ramsay failed to rouse sufficient shareholder support for the deal, falling short of the 75% minimum threshold (by value) it needed for approval.
Achieve together, a UK provider of specialist support for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs, has acquired the residential and community services of RNID national hearing loss charity for an undisclosed sum. HBI speaks to Emma Pearson, CEO at Achieve together, to find out more.
Abu Dhabi will work with Israel's largest payor-provider Clalit and its largest hospital Sheba Medical Centre in two separate MoUs that promise to work on population health management, genome sequencing and digital health services.
Four in ten of Germany's for-profit hospitals ran a deficit in 2020, up from one in ten the year before. The survey of Germany's 600 largest hospitals paints a grim outlook across the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors alike, as half expect liquidity and further sales crashes through the next year.
Whether profit making in the adult care sector should be capped, or the entire sector simply nationalised, is a hot topic in Sweden and Denmark at the moment. HBI speaks to market experts to find out more.
Synlab says its revenues will grow 20-25% this year, upping guidance from 17%, as the COVID-19 related tailwind shows no sign of dissipating. It expects to hit up to €3.3bn of sales.
Consumer choice, one of the two major bedrocks of modern free-market capitalism (the other being free enterprise), is considered essential in most sectors of the economy: without it there is little incentive for suppliers to make improvements and compete with each other in either quality or cost effectiveness and no scope for consumers to select products and services that best suit their own specific desires and needs.
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