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Workplace Options bought out by Canadian TELUS Health

TELUS Health, a health and wellbeing provider headquartered in Vancouver (operating under parent company TELUS Corporation), has announced the acquisition of Workplace Options, the world’s largest privately owned and independent global provider of integrated employee wellbeing solutions, supported by a strategic partnership with GTCR, a private equity investor with expertise in healthcare. 

Spire slashing 400 hospital jobs to increase efficiency and flexibility

Spire, the UK’s largest for-profit hospital group, plans to hand out redundancy packages to about 400 of its ~14,000 employees (~2.5%) as part of an initiative to create operational efficiencies and have a higher proportion of bank (i.e. part-time) workers. The jobs being cut include clinical as well as admin staff, but the group says there will be no reduction in patient-facing clinical hours.

In-receivorship Healthscope receives 10 non-binding offers

Healthscope, Australia’s second largest private hospital group, has received 10 non-binding indicative takeover offers, according to its CEO. This comes after the group’s US private equity owner Brookfield handed over control of the business to creditors after failing to resolve its financial issues.

FREE BLOG Election season in Poland — what might it mean for the private health sector?

The ongoing elections in Poland, with both candidates competing neck and neck, are expected to have major consequences for the country’s health system — but not necessarily in the way one might expect. Liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform, narrowly won the first round on 18 May with […]

Top 5 EU countries compared: healthcare services M&A activity in 2025

In this week’s infographic, HBI takes a look at the healthcare services mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2025 across Europe’s top 5 markets: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain.  Care Homes & Residential Care accounted for approximately 37% of all healthcare services M&A deals in 2025. The vast majority of this activity […]

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