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iCON buys Alliance Medical

The longstanding bidding war for pan-European diagnostic firm Alliance Medical Group is over, with iCON Infrastructure confirmed as the new buyer. The £910m deal ends months of speculation. HBI asks a UK-based consultant what this means for the market.
October 13, 2023

Why KKR is set to buy Eugin – and Fresenius wants to sell

Global investment company KKR is set to buy Eugin, the Spain-based fertility subsidiary owned by Germany-based conglomerate Fresenius, for €500m. We ask why KKR might want it, and whether it makes sense for Fresenius to sell.
October 6, 2023

Record fines are putting care homes at risk

With UK for-profit group Cygnet Health Care being fined £1.5m last month following the death of an inpatient at Ealing Hospital in 2019 - the largest ever penalty imposed on a mental health provider - we speak to four European experts to consider how punitive fines from regulators are impacting providers’ bottom line.
October 6, 2023

Interview: Howard Podolsky, Group CEO, Cambridge Medical

Last week, Amanat Holdings announced the return of Howard Podolsky to Cambridge Medical Rehabilitation Center. HBI caught up with the ‘new’ group CEO to hear about current challenges and opportunities in the Middle East and what is different this time around.
October 6, 2023

Key takeaways from the HETT 2023 London Conference

Last week, HBI joined thousands of delegates at the Health Excellence Through Technology (HETT) 2023 conference in London, where exhibiters congregated to explore how digital innovation can be leveraged to address record-level NHS waiting lists - something keynote speaker Vin Diwakar, medical director for transformation dubbed “the greatest crisis since the Second World War.”
October 6, 2023

Why it pays to do the basics when building a patient pathway

A German outpatient operator tells HBI how providers are attracting and keeping patients within their businesses throughout the patient pathway, with as many as 50% of complex ophthalmology referrals coming from internal sources. HBI hears it pays to do basic (less profitable) work and even consider retail early in the patient journey so when they really do need help, they already have a provider of choice.
September 29, 2023

Hungary’s health care sector boosted by new state-of-the-art TritonLife lab

TritonLife, Hungary’s largest private hospital group, has significantly boosted the country’s diagnostic testing capacity by opening a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Budapest. The group tells HBI it will eventually have the capacity to process 10 million tests per year, including many which previously had to be sent abroad to be processed. As well as providing an in-house diagnostics service to the group’s own patients, TritonLife has agreed to provide testing services to more than 20 other private health care providers in the country.
September 29, 2023

Alliance Medical sale “imminent”

HBI hears that the longstanding sale of UK diagnostic firm Alliance Medical Group is imminent, with two bidders left in the process and pan-European operator Affidea tipped to be the front-runner. We speak to three market experts to find out more about the deal which is being valued at around $800m-$1bn.
September 22, 2023

German for profits’ growing influence in the healthcare sector

Germany's for-profit hospital sector has a growing role in the market's provision. Between 2014 and 2021, the percentage of German hospitals which were owned by the for-profit sector rose 2.3 percentage points to 44.5% and the number of beds controlled by the for-profit sector rose 0.9 percentage points to 24%.
September 22, 2023
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