There are numerous reports that UK-based insurer and international healthcare provider Bupa is bidding to buy UK dental chain Oasis Healthcare for £500m. One analyst says the deal would make sense.
One year ago, the Norwegian government introduced a free choice reform, giving patients the opportunity to be referred to private hospitals. Only 250 patients have done so to date. Per Helge Fagermoen, CEO of the country’s second largest private hospital chain Volvat, explains why.
Romania's largest healthcare group Medlife has hired banker Raiffeisen to advise on an IPO next month, in November. The listing will provide private equity house Value4Capital (V4C) a way to exit its 36% stake after more than a year of unfruitful attempts to disinvest.
With three advanced cancer treatment centres being built in the UK, and the newly acquired Gulf International Cancer Centre in Abu Dhabi set to become the first proton beam therapy centre in the UAE, Proton Partners International is making big plans for the future. We speak to CEO Mike Moran, MBE, about how a business formed in February last year is making plans to go global.
Pan-European care provider Orpea has bought Residencia Reyes de Aragón and Centro Residencial Erit, two nursing home standalones in Zaragoza and Barcelona, respectively. We look at Orpea's prospects for expansion following the Sanyres acquisition.
Private equity house BC Partners is buying 22 mental health hospitals from Acadia-owned Priory Group for £320m. The deal comes as Acadia remains under pressure to comply with competition laws after its purchase of Priory Group for £1.3bn in January 2016.
Brazil lifted the ban on foreign investments in hospitals in 2015. Is this attracting a new wave of healthcare investments and what is this doing to competition among the big groups? We ask independent consultant Martín Benítez Ramírez for an overview of the biggest deals. Ramirez has extensive M&A experience in Brazilian healthcare. He was in charge of […]
Poland's Law and Justice government is radically reforming the country's healthcare system. It has already removed a mechanism driving the privatisation of state hospitals. Now, a sequence of bills is being prepared that will reform primary care, bring in an NHS style system and create a national hospital network with access to state funds. We investigate.
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