Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Dentistry

 

European mid-market deals return but top end still quiet

Middle-market M&A is picking up again across healthcare sub-sectors in Europe, but investors are still reluctant to take the leap on larger assets. We round up where deals are - and aren't happening, and why. There is close to €1.2bn revenue up for grabs in the dentistry sector, nearly €1bn in the psychiatry sector, and around €750m in other outpatient services like ophthalmology and IVF.

Interview: Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting 

What can you do with AI and big data today and what will be possible within three years? Why has adoption been slower than you might have expected? And what sort of role should health care providers look to play? HBI gets an expert view from digital, technology and business strategy expert Klaus Boehncke, partner at L.E.K. Consulting, who is chairing the Best Practice Workshop: Delivering Digital Excellence: A Framework for Success at HBI 2020 in two weeks.

CEE – a land of opportunity?

With 125 million people - 80 million of whom live in the big four (Poland, Romania, Czechia and Hungary) - CEE is a large and diverse market. But is it a tempting one? HBI-365 members heard an expert panel in our CEE State of the Regions broadcast suggest that while COVID is creating huge problems across the world, it is also creating opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

DACH operators should feel positive about 2021

Despite one of the panellists at HBI's DACH-State of the Regions broadcast last week labelling 2020 "the wildest year in recent history in the healthcare sector", there are lots of reasons to feel positive about Europe's German-speaking countries as we look towards the new year.

COVID vaccine: Shot in the arm the markets needed?

Pfizer shares rocketed 15% on Monday with news of a vaccine that's more than 90% effective. But lab and telehealth shares plummeted upon the announcement while hospitals, care homes and outpatient groups recouped some of their YTD losses. HBI explores what a vaccine might mean across the five sub-sectors.

Dentex gets cash injection from shareholder

In what has been a tough year for dentists across Europe, UK dental partnership group Dentex has raised a further £20m from its major shareholder "to continue success in the corporate dental world". HBI speaks to CEO Barry Lanesman to find out more.

IDH sale could lead to group breakup

UK-based NHS dental specialist IDH, which operates over 600 UK-based clinics as {my}dentist and supplies thousands of dentists with products and equipment through dental supplier DD, is for sale. Could the group could be broken up if the buyer for the whole is not found?

COVID-19: The view from Africa

Africa needs to come together to find a solution to the COVID crisis, which has proved to be as much an economic one as a healthcare one - and cannot and should not rely on help from outside. This was the view of an expert panel which convened online to discuss COVID-19, healthcare more generally, and African economics.

Find Us