Belgian healthcare REIT Aedifica has been expanding and made acquisitions in Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland amounting to €151 million. HBI breaks down its latest spends.
Bupa’s new CEO Iñaki Ereño has announced a new strategy for the international health insurer and service group including making 40% of customer care touchpoints Bupa-owned, and having 60% active digital customers. What does this mean for Bupa's M&A strategy going forward? We talk to consultancy Candesic to find out more.
HBI’s inaugural HBI Health Care Services Top 100 lists the largest 100 companies by EMEA health care services revenue. In total revenue their revenue came to over €105bn - and we've uncovered some surprising winners and losers.
French REIT Icade says it will float healthcare property investor Icade Santé by the end of 2021 to raise funds for a €3bn four-year investment plan. The news comes as Cofinimmo acquires its first healthcare assets in the UK.
The left-wing opposition in the Flemish parliament has succeeded in postponing a vote on allowing greater private investment into the care home sector.
France and Greece have joined the growing list of European countries to make vaccinations mandatory for care home staff. Both Italy and UK already have policies on mandatory vaccination. Debate continues to rage about the effect these policies will have on staffing in a sector that already struggles with recruitment and retention.
Blocks Group has acquired Aktios, the leading operator of elderly and dementia care homes in Greece. We talk to Ilian Grigorov, Chairman and CEO of Blocks Group, about the deal and the group's future expansion plans in Southeast Europe.
A lot of discussion has taken place about the conduct of nursing homes in the pandemic. Today we look at the number of excess deaths among the over 65s in a population in 2020, and compare it to the loss in occupancy that operators suffered through that year.
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