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N+1 Mercapital to sell Spanish healthcare interests

Private equity house N +1 Mercapital plans to sell its two Spanish healthcare service investments, say reliable sources. The canny investor has called the market right over the years and made a fortune owning and selling hospital groups such as Hospiten, Quiron and USP.

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.

HM goes national

HM Hospitales, formerly known as Hospitales de Madrid, is set to make its first foray out of the capital with the purchase of Grupo Hospitalario Modelo in La Corunna, Galicia. The deal means that there are now four private chains vying to build national chains in Spain led by Quiron, closely followed by IDCSalud and […]

Centene set to buy Ribera Salud

Centene, the US Medicaid specialist, is set to buy Spanish hospital Ribera Salud, the company behind the pioneering Alzira model in which a consortium of private operators run primary and secondary care for the public payor for a region of 250,000-300,000 people. It plans to then export Alzira to countries as varied as Latin America, the UK and even North America.

Magnum builds nursing home group

Spanish private equity house Magnum has forked out on two new acquisitions for Geriatros, its buy and build nursing home group. One deal takes it into residential psychiatric care.

Spain to pioneer new homecare models

Spain is set for radical change in how it handles elderly people, says Jorge Guarner of SAR Quavitae, the biggest private nursing home operator. “The Spain of five years ago with unlimited budgets has gone for ever. This means much more innovation and a realisation from regional governments that they can’t do everything.”

Building in Brazil

Few diagnostic laboratories in Europe, let alone in Spain, can claim to have grown their sales by 20% in 2013. We talk to Maurizio Weisz, President of Cerba International (not to be confused with Cerba Europa, the big French group).

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