UK dental operators are facing a recruitment crisis and going to extreme lengths – including offering a £15k “golden handshake” – to attract dentists to work in less popular areas.
Dental operators in the UK employing their dentists as freelancers are nervously keeping a watching brief on a potential review by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of the way they employ “staff” in the light of the decision which saw Uber drivers re-classified as employees.
London-listed GCC-based operator NMC Health has acquired UK hospital group Aspen Healthcare from US-listed Tenet Healthcare, for an enterprise value of £10m. Dallas-based Tenet acquired Aspen for £144m in 2015.
Is the UK is losing out to Europe when it comes to healthcare deals? With so much for sale and so little buying activity recently, Healthcare Europa catches up with a UK market analyst to find out more.
Healthcare Europa talks to Philip Buergin, the new CEO of Jacobs Holding-backed Colosseum Dental UK, about problems and opportunities in the UK dental market, the wider European perspective, and Colosseum's plans for the future.
Spire Healthcare, the UK's second largest private hospital group, has warned of materially lower profits, and expects EBITDA to be below last year's figures after NHS revenues dropped 9.5%.
Dentists in the UK are facing tough times – including the largest provider of NHS dentistry in the country, Mydentist. But as revenue falls and it begins to shed practices, has it bitten off more than it can chew? Healthcare Europa looks at its recent results, asks where things have gone wrong – and speaks to the company to ask what is being done to put things back on track.
Pan- European and Indian healthcare and diagnostics provider Medicover is entering the wellness market, in a move that could provide interesting synergies with its corporate healthcare offering, mainly in Poland and Romania. The company's H1 and second quarter financials show losses in the Indian and UK fertility markets, but strong growth in Eastern Europe. We […]
Before British primary care digital health player Babylon came along, the Rwandan government had never signed a contract with a private healthcare provider. A universal healthcare coverage scheme called Mutuelles de Santé had been operating in the country since 1999, but ten years later was spending 9.7% of GDP on health. The government and its citizens needed a means to make healthcare more accessible and affordable: so in 2016 it invited a private digital health platform to help connect patients to doctors.
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