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Counting the Cost: The impact of inflation on Europe’s health care market

What impact has the high inflation of the past 18 months had on growth in Europe’s health care market? Have for-profit operators been able to pass on cost increases to payors? And have patients paying out of pocket, in the face of rising prices and squeezed budgets, cut back at all? In this first instalment to answer these questions, we focus on the for-profit hospital, imaging and nursing home sectors in the UK, France and Germany.
August 18, 2023

Four Seasons filing for dissolution, takes some homes off the market

Troubled UK care home operator Four Seasons Health Care Limited has filed notice at Companies House to move from administration to dissolution, but neither its administrators nor its PR representatives are willing to comment on this. HBI hears the lengthy sale of most - but not all - of its remaining business is still ongoing.
August 18, 2023

See the Global Top 50 by Market Cap

Who are the Global Top 50 Health Care Service Companies by market cap and what does this tell us about the industry? What is striking is how very few of the top 50 are now EMEA companies - just 13, and of those only four are headquartered in Europe, rather than the Middle East or South Africa. 
August 11, 2023

UK nursing home sector “still viable”

Despite their travails, good nursing home groups in the UK are still making decent money, according to OakNorth, a bank which has some half dozen on its books, and Impact Healthcare REIT, a listed UK-based nursing home real estate investment firm with 14 operators as tenants. The government deserves some of the credit for this, having increased fees above inflation and made it easier for foreign care workers to get visas.
August 10, 2023

Aedifica finds buyers for Orpea’s Brussels homes

Belgium-based real estate specialist Aedifica has confirmed the sale of five of its nine Orpea homes, all located in Brussels. The news confirms previous speculation that Belgium was next on the French nursing home’s divestment list from a €1.2bn chunk of its real estate portfolio.
August 4, 2023

Dutch care staff awarded pay hikes to compete with temp agencies

In a bid to compete with temporary agencies, elderly care staff in the Netherlands as set to receive salary hikes of 5% this October - with another 5% increase again in 2024. HBI speaks to one Dutch sector expert to understand the reasoning behind the move and ask if will it have the desired effect.
August 3, 2023
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