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Assura switches to favouring PHP merger over KKR buy-out

UK healthcare real estate investor Assura has changed its mind between the two suitors vying to acquire it. The REIT’s board is now recommending its shareholders accept a sweetened £1.79 billion (~€2.1 billion) offer from Primary Healthcare Properties (PHP), its main competitor as the only other UK healthcare REIT focused on primary care assets. This comes just two weeks after it said it was accepting a ‘final’ £1.7 billion (~€2 billion) cash offer from US PE firms KKR and Stonepeak.
June 26, 2025

AI scribes will have to get medical device certification in UK

The NHS has declared that any AI tool used for clinical summarisation now falls under medical device regulation, meaning scribes will have to get certification in the UK. While the need for safety is clear, this increased regulation could create barriers to innovation, slow down processes and cause concern among developers and those invested in […]
June 26, 2025

Omega confirms it acquired 45 Four Seasons care homes

US healthcare REIT Omega Healthcare Investors has confirmed it was the acquirer of 45 of the final batch of 47 UK care homes that were sold earlier this year in the final stage of the years-long liquidation of Four Seasons, formerly the UK’s largest for-profit elderly care group.
June 19, 2025

What the NHS robotic surgery push means for UK medtech

Investment in the sector is splitting three ways: Healthcare AI is surging as the sector’s key growth driver, robotics and lab automation are gaining ground amid staff shortages and cheaper hardware, while medtech has largely stalled, frustrating investors who bought in years ago.
June 12, 2025

Assura once again rejects PHP in favour of ‘final’ KKR/Stonepeak £1.7bn cash offer

Listed UK healthcare REIT Assura has made a decision between the two parties vying to acquire it: the REIT’s board has agreed to a ‘best and final’ increased cash offer from US PE firms KKR and Stonepeak, which it says it intends to unanimously recommend to shareholders. Primary Healthcare Properties (PHP), Assura's main competitor as the only other UK REIT with a significant primary care portfolio, has responded by sweetening its offer and urging the board to reconsider.
June 12, 2025

21% reduction in UK weight loss surgery admissions in 2024

This week’s infographic looks at the percentage reduction in cosmetic & weight loss surgery in 2024. The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) just released their June 2025  quarterly report detailing trends in private health activity in the UK. According to the report in 2024 there was a 21% fall in ‘Weightloss surgery - gastrectomy’ and in the category of cosmetic surgeries, ‘Tummy tuck – abdominoplasty’ was down 10%, ‘Breast lift – mastopexy’ down 15% and Breast reduction down 7%.
June 11, 2025

Hims & Hers to acquire ZAVA in global expansion

Hims & Hers health, an American health and wellness platform, has announced its agreement to acquire ZAVA, a UK-based European telehealth platform, as part of a “significant step” in its global expansion.
June 5, 2025
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