Wren House, the investment subsidiary owned by the Kuwait Sovereign Fund, is about to buy French hospital group Almaviva Santé from Antin, reports say.
Finland's second-largest for-profit healthcare operator Mehilainen has acquired Fysios which claims to be the country's largest for-profit physiotherapy player. The newly acquired group is looking to expand internationally, and grow its digital services.
Next year, Germany will launch a new telemonitoring reimbursement scheme to give families and carers free homecare tech. A similar bill for chronic disease management in France also might squeeze its way into next year's health budget.
Short-staffed private hospitals in Malaysia are assisting public providers in the fight against Covid, by taking swathes of additional patients from public hospitals for capped fees.
Governments across Europe are slashing prices and volumes of coronavirus testing in a bid to curb one of the biggest health spends of the pandemic. Many are trying to push the costs of preventive tests back onto the consumer.
A well-placed German radiology source has given HBI a price and multiple for EQT's acquisition of Meine Radiologie which, together with Blikk, is combining to make the country's largest group in the sector by revenue.
UK domiciliary care providers are seeing a rise in caregiver jobs, job applications, and hires driven by COVID. As lockdown lifts, HBI examines what is happening in the market.
The left-wing opposition in the Flemish parliament has succeeded in postponing a vote on allowing greater private investment into the care home sector.
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