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UK healthcare market – surprisingly strong

How is Europe's largest private equity invested market faring in these uncertain times, as staff shortages and the continuing uncertainty of Brexit make forecasting the future difficult? In most cases, better than you might think! This was the general response from HBI 2019's learned panel of UK and Ireland experts - but as always there were exceptions that proved the rule.

Ophthalmology: A birds eye view of a fragmented market

Ophthalmology may be a fragmented market, but international chains like Aier and Optegra are emerging. Can national operators build real competitive advantage in largely unconsolidated markets? And if so, how? HBI 2019 drew together CxOs from three large players as former ophthalmologist turned Mansfield Advisor Victor Chua chaired a session to find out more.

Procurement doesn’t capture operators’ imaginations, but there’s money to be saved

Healthcare operators do not, generally, find procurement a hot topic – yet there are huge savings to be made and procurement done well can make a substantial difference to a company’s bottom line. Where is the booking.com of medtech, and why do companies seem content to pay up to fivefold more for the same product in a neighbouring country? How do you get operators interested in procurement when. Clearly, if they can save money they ought to be?

FREE BLOG Ten more things we learned at HBI 2019

Here are 10 more things that piqued our interest at HBI 2019, where sector stakeholders from payors to investors come together to grapple with the biggest and most interesting issues of the year.

FREE BLOG Things we learned at HBI 2019

This week delegates from around the world descended on London for HBI 2019 to discuss the healthcare market and its various sub-sectors. Here are the things we learnt:

Montagu buying ophthalmology clinics in Germany

Private equity firm Montagu is acquiring three ophthalmology clinics in Cologne, Germany, taking its majority-owned consolidation platform Artemis Augenkliniken into a new market, according to filings on the country’s competition regulator website.

Temasek eyes up Indian investment

Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings has invested Rs270 crore ($38m) in Indian eye care chain Dr Agarwal’s Health Centre, taking a minority stake.

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