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Bupa letting go of M&A and Integration Team members

HBI hears that global healthcare insurer and operator Bupa is letting go of a significant number of its dentistry-focussed M&A and integration team. The decision follows huge write-offs in 2019 in its UK dentistry business and Australian care homes.
March 19, 2020

COVID-19: Care sector confronts crisis, hospitals hit hard

In the second of our two-part deep dive into how COVID-19 is hitting healthcare markets across EMEA, we ask how hospitals are coping with spiralling staff sickness and a flood of patients, and whether the care and dialysis sectors can stay afloat given the risk the virus poses to their most vulnerable patients.
March 12, 2020

COVID-19: Threats and opportunities

Covid-19 is going to have a huge impact on for-profit healthcare services. In the first of a two-part report, we look at what that will be at a sector and country level. Digital health looks like being a winner, Ping An claims online consultations are up tenfold, with the spectre of a crash in elective procedures hanging over for-profit hospitals and specialist outpatient chains. We also look at the likely impact on M&A.  The second part of this report, focussing on the care sector, will be published next week.
March 5, 2020

Primo Group and CareDent merge

For-profit dental groups CareDent and Primo Group have merged, creating a new number two player by revenue in Italy.
February 28, 2020

KKR pulls out of Dentix deal

Global investment firm KKR has pulled out of a deal to take a majority stake in Spain’s biggest dental chain, Dentix, the company exclusively tells HBI. It is KKR's second high-profile decision not to invest in a large healthcare group this week.
February 13, 2020

Interview: August Equity

HBI talks to Christian Dubé and Garret Turley, partners at London-based August Equity which invests heavily in healthcare, and whose portfolio includes the fast-growing Dental Partners.
January 30, 2020

Finnish region to launch €1bn healthcare tender

One of Finland's regions has taken a stand against continued SOTE delays by opting to outsource its health and social services through a joint venture worth up to €1bn with a single operator. It's the first substantial tender since new outsourcing tenders were banned in 2016 - could other regions follow?
January 22, 2020

Interview: Reef Group

A specialist developer is planning to turn an underground carpark under a central London park near Harley Street into a four-storey subterranean healthcare and wellness development. Provisional talks with private hospital and diagnostic operators have been held, while wellness and leisure operators could be housed under the same roof. HBI talks exclusively to the team at Reef Group and its partners about the plan to transform historic Cavendish Square.
January 22, 2020
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