Preliminary bids for Dutch, Nordic and German ambulatory and ophthalmology clinic group Bergman Clinics were due last week, HBI is told, with big-hitting PE firms expected to make offers.
Imaging AI solutions which can read images just as well as radiologists are now demonstrably effective medical products that will revolutionise the medical imaging industry forever. $1.5bn in VC funding has been ploughed into companies developing solutions whose tech promises to transform diagnosis and improve operational efficiency. We talk to seven of them who've commercialised products in 2019/20, operators using them, and look at the sector in detail in this long-read feature.
Apax Partners France has acquired Dutch psychiatry group Mentaal Beter. Partner Marc Benatar tells HBI that the group is planning to export its protocolised, pure outpatient model elsewhere in Europe through M&A.
France-based pan-European Care group Korian has entered into a 15-year-partnership with BNP Paribas Cardif and EDF Invest, creating a real estate vehicle with Korian at the helm.
The Fertility Partnership (TFP) is looking to sell a minority stake, HBI exclusively hears. We speak to an operator and a banking source to find out more.
As predicted by HBI in the summer, Dutch dental chain Curaeos has now struck a deal with its creditors. We speak to a banking source to find out more, and hear why this could be a salutary warning for other operators.
Netherlands-based medicalised homecare provider and pharmaceutical distributor Mediq is for sale, with a potential €1.2bn price tag. With non-binding bids for the pan-European group due in the first week of November, HBI hears that a private equity buyer is almost certain with little interest from strategic parties.
Sources in the Netherlands say Dutch maternity has been struggling this year. HBI understands one group, for-profit Zorg in Nederland (ZIN), which employs 1,300 nurses, has received help from its insurers at this troubling time.
Following on from our exclusive story last month confirming Dutch mental health provider Mentaal Beter is for sale, HBI hears there has been considerable interest in the deal.
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