Aedifica has acquired its first asset in Ireland. The Belgian REIT has taken ownership of an operational purpose-built care home in Mallow, County Cork in a deal worth approximately €25m.
Cofinimmo has acquired five new healthcare sites in Normandy for approximately €44m further extending its French portfolio. The Belgian-based real estate company's new assets comprise four nursing and care homes, one of which is currently under construction, and one assisted-living facility.
The UK government has said it will introduce long-awaited reforms on social care this year, as part of a new package of measures to reorganise the structure of NHS England.
A detailed draft on German long-term care (LTC) insurance reform is expected in the coming days, HBI hears. The government plans to cap the out-of-pocket spend on residential care to €700 a month, three times less than the current average spend.
Pan-European nursing home group Orpea has acquired a training academy in Austria, HBI can reveal. It signals a new wave for the group, which tells HBI that it wants to be known in five to ten years as a school, alongside its care and property arms. It will use the licence to build a university campus, doubling the number of people trained locally, and then duplicate this model across all its markets.
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.
French property investor Icade Santé has contracted to acquire a portfolio of nursing home properties in Northern Italy, and three in France, bolstering its European footprint.
Vaccine teams started working en masse in UK care homes this week, providers tell HBI. The new move is expected to greatly accelerate the vaccination programme - one of the first of its kind in the world - as residents until now have had to leave facilities to be jabbed.
Investors from varied backgrounds - infrastructure, private equity, and REIT, are all bullish about the prospects for healthcare investment in 2021, according to a panel of experts speaking at the HBI 2020 European Investment Panel discussion. But the pandemic may have 'readjusted the relative value discussion across sectors' according to one private equity investor.
The relationship between medtech and its customers is changing. No longer is medtech wheeled out for a one-off purchase. Long-term partnerships are being built, and patients and providers are benefitting. An expert panel at HBI 2020 explored the burgeoning relationship between medtech and services, and some of the challenges this presented.
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