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Circle to partner in China and Europe

UK hospital management group Circle is set to partner with a European player to offer a rehabilitation solution in the UK. We name the likely partner. Circle has also announced a joint venture with what it claims is the fourth largest hospital chain in China.

Affidea boss denies rumours

Affidea CEO Dimitris Moulavasilis has categorically denied rumours that Waypoint Capital might be willing to sell the Pan East and South European imaging service provider. There was speculation that such a sale would have left the way open for a large private equity house to buy both Affidea and Alliance Medical, where M&G is looking for a sale, and merge them to create a truly Pan-European operator. Instead, Moulavasilis expressed interest in further acquisitions to grow the company.

Who’d buy Alliance Medical?

Alliance Medical, one of Europe’s two big imaging service groups, has appointed Rothschild to consider strategic options, according to Sky News. So who would want to buy it? Big medtech?

GHTs to further marginalise French private hospitals

The French private hospital sector is excluded from the latest plans to consolidate public hospitals through the creation of Groupements Hospitaliers de Territoire (GHT). Is this yet another indicator that the government is marginalising the private sector?

Swiss face big danger of tariff cuts

Swiss tariffs for technical services which include lab and imaging could drop by 27%, according to a proposal formulated by doctor and hospital associations and some insurers. The actual drop is likely to be much lower, but a cut looks inevitable.

Hiperdia for sale

Bedminister Capital is set to sell Romanian imaging chain Hiperdia, meanwhile Medlife continues to search for a new minority backer.

PMI resilient through Brazil’s recession

Unemployment may have crashed from 4% to 10.9% in the first quarter of 2016, but the number of lives covered by private medical insurance has fallen just 3.1% in 15 months. That is despite a 3.8% drop in GDP in 2015 and forecasts of a similar fall in 2016.

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