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AstraZeneca plans to invest $15 billion in China

Global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is set to make a $15 billion investment in China through 2030 to expand its manufacturing and research and development capabilities in the country.
February 5, 2026

Chaos and opportunity — The impact of Trump’s trade war on Europe’s healthcare sector

Europe’s healthcare providers are less directly exposed to Donald Trump’s trade war than its med tech sector. But hospital and outpatient groups will still suffer. The severity of the pain will depend largely on the EU’s response to US tariffs, in particular the level and extent of possible counter tariffs. The EU could also be galvanised into better supporting innovation and R&D in its med tech and pharma sectors.
April 24, 2025

Sweden’s Supreme Court rules against Attendo in first-of-its-kind whistleblowing case

Sweden’s Supreme Court has upheld the judgement of two lower courts that a care assistant working at pan-Nordic for-profit care group Attendo had the right to go to the media with concerns about inadequate measures being taken against covid infection, in the first case of a company being prosecuted under a new Swedish law protecting whistleblowers.
November 22, 2024

FREE BLOG What does the UK’s budget mean for its creaking healthcare system?

The UK government’s latest budget reveals a truth many European politicians would rather avoid: the current model for financing public services, including healthcare, is creaking. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves' decision to loosen fiscal rules to enable greater borrowing is an admission that something has to give.
November 1, 2024

HBI News Round Up, 26 July 2024

In this HBI News Round Up we cover the impact of a global IT outage on UK hospitals and GP practice, reports that bankrupt Dutch primary care chain Co-Med has been raided for suspected healthcare fraud, a capital increase for Moroccan hospital group Akdital Group, investment details for private science and innovation hub owner Deeplabs, and loan-based expansion for hybrid retirement communities operator Untold Living.
July 26, 2024

HBI News Round Up, 19 July 2024

In this HBI News Round Up we look at Indian healthcare financing startup Icanheal’s latest fundraising, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust’s acquisition of a hospital currently run by UK private hospital operator Spire, the suspension of a surgeon by Spire for patient harm, French nursing home giant emeis’ sale of €24 million of real estate agreement in Portugal, funding house Unicorn India’s partial exit from medtech startup Sascan, London-based healthcare startup Huma’s fundraising to expand its AI-driven healthcare platform, and the construction of a new private hospital in Budapest, Hungary.
July 19, 2024
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