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Interview: Natalie Douglas, CEO, Healthcare at Home

Vetruvian-owned medicalised homecare group Healthcare at Home has been turned round. There are straws in the wind that suggest it might soon be for sale. We talk to CEO Natalie Douglas about the company, which is by far the largest provider of medical care around drugs in the home in UK, and is also active across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. 

Spire shares fall as Mediclinic refuses to up bid

South African group Mediclinic has decided not to up its cash and paper offer which values UK hospital group Spire at circa 315.5p. Shares in Spire slumped on the news.  Meanwhile further bad news emerged at Netcare and Tenet on the struggling UK private hospital sector.

UK care home giant set to pass to creditor

Ownership of the UK’s second largest care home group, Four Seasons, looks set to pass from private equity owners Terra Firma to its key creditor, US hedge fund H/2 Capital, in a move that would see the former capping its losses at £450m (€510m).

First “open to all” NHS-funded telehealth primary care app launches

Telehealth provider babylon has launched the first NHS funded telehealth primary care service which is open to all patients, with a 'GP at hand' app that promises NHS tele-consultations within two hours and face-to-face appointments within a day. Now and Evergreen are also working with the NHGS but offer more limited options. We talk to babylon.

Germans pull out of Aspen deal

German hospital groups Rhoen Klinikum and Fresenius Helios are no longer considering a bid for UK rival Aspen Healthcare, say sources.

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