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Ardian buys German healthcare recruitment platform Pflegia

The investment comes as healthcare providers across Europe continue to grapple with workforce shortages. Structural factors including an ageing population, retirements, high staff turnover and regulatory staffing requirements are driving demand for digital recruitment platforms.
July 16, 2026

Gimv buys Novicare from Gilde Healthcare

Belgian PE firm Gimv has bought a majority stake in Novicare, a Dutch healthcare staffing company, from Dutch specialist healthcare PE investor Gilde Healthcare. Rune Aresvik, an expert on the Dutch healthcare market, tells us Novicare’s relatively unique business model has potential to be scaled within the Netherlands and possibly exported to other European countries.
August 28, 2025

FREE BLOG The UK’s care visa crunch represents another blow to a squeezed sector

The UK government’s new visa policy announcement, scrapping visas for care workers, has sent ripples of concern through England’s care sector. For operators and investors in elderly care and supported living facilities already navigating challenging conditions, such as those introduced by the recent increase in employer National Insurance contributions, this shift represents a significant operational […]
May 15, 2025

Healthcare investment “through the bottom of the cycle” — Goldberg (Rothschild)

At last year’s conference Hedley Goldberg, Managing Director at multinational investment bank Rothschild, predicted healthcare M&A activity would begin picking up again in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024. But we’re now halfway through 2024 and there are still very few deals above €500m taking place. Goldberg is confident, however, that we have now passed through the bottom of the cycle.
June 20, 2024

Covid and Sweden boost Terveystalo

Terveystalo, one of Finland’s two for-profit healthcare giants, saw strong growth in 2021, helped by its recent move into Sweden and a Covid boost. We speak to Terveystalo’s head of investor relations and two analysts, to analyse growth drivers.
February 17, 2022

Patriotic bonus does not stop the brain drain from Poland

To halt the brain drain, in 2018 the Polish government introduced the "patriotic bonus". Doctors who agreed to stay in Poland for at least two years after finishing their post-graduate specialisation receive an additional monthly payment throughout that training. But has it made a difference? HBI, speaks to Dr Witold Paweł Kalbarczyk, advisor in the healthcare sector and former board member of EMC, as well as to CxOs in a large Polish operator and private equity fund investing in the region.
February 2, 2022

HBI 2020: Medtech and services – new partnerships and opportunities

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.
December 21, 2020

Interview: Dr Hugo Stephenson, CEO, Induction Healthcare

The Induction Switch app is used by the majority of hospital doctors in the UK but its owner has only very recently started generating revenue a year after launching on the AIM. That's despite a userbase stretching South Africa, Australia and the USA. Its CEO, an entrepreneur who has founded no less than three health tech companies, talks to HBI about how it plans to turn free-using customers into revenue-generating customers.
April 23, 2020

Each COVID-19 patient could mean one healthcare worker in isolation

In the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a third of all patients treated at one Wuhan hospital were healthcare workers that had treated positive patients. This week's infographic brings together stats from the worst affected areas to look at how must of the workforce might be lost to sickness.
March 12, 2020
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