Private Equity firm Key Capital Partners (KCP) has sold its majority interest in long-term homecare operator Routes Healthcare, through a secondary buy-out backed by Palatine Private Equity.
The for-profit children's home market in the UK has been criticised for "indefensible" fees by the chair of the Independent Review of Children's Social Care.
Global industrial gas providers Air Liquide and Linde have signed two agreements with development agencies Unitaid and Clinton Health Access Initiative(CHAI), to combat a critical oxygen shortage in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) amid the second COVID wave, supplying gas for a "fair price".
Healthcare insurers talk about quality and controlling prices, but rarely successfully do either. Not so in Finland where quality has improved and prices have risen by only about 5-10% in total over the past five years. How?
Private equity firms Coalition Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus are reportedly short-listed to acquire South East Asian healthcare services provider Fullerton Healthcare Group for $1 billion.
Acquisitions in the European telehealth space are ramping up this year thanks to some mid-sized consolidation plays. HBI speaks to the CEOs of the buying parties: Ranjan Singh from HealthHero and Murray Ellender from eConsult.
The management of DomusVi, the pan-European nursing home group, backed by DomusVi founder Yves Journel's investment vehicle, have bought out private equity firm ICG in a leveraged buyout. The group was reportedly valued at €4.3bn, 16.4 times adjusted 2020 EBITDA.
Mubadala Health, the integrated health network of sovereign investor Mubadala, has added speciality fertility and women's health services to its network and expanded into Saudi with the acquisition of UEMedical. It now claims to be the largest IVF provider in the region.
Progress made on the digital and data front continues to raise hopes of truly integrated healthcare, but that promise relies on infrastructure which can support it. At digital healthcare conference HIMSS21, a panel of European experts warned that in countries like Spain and the UK, infrastructure issues are the biggest impediment to progress.
An eHub platform pioneered by GP-led NHS Partnership the Hurley Group has been replicated elsewhere across the UK. HBI speaks to a pioneer of the concept to find out how eHubs work, and how they could transform primary care.
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