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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.

SpaMedica up for sale (again)

HBI hears ophthalmic specialist SpaMedica, the largest UK NHS cataract surgery provider, is back up for sale just two months after it was pulled from the market. HBI speaks to a UK based market expert to find out more, and about how the group continues to carve out a growing niche for itself, and speculates on price and multiple.

Exclusive: SpaMedica pulled from sale as UK election and Brexit loom

The largest UK NHS cataract surgery provider, ophthalmic specialist SpaMedica, was pulled from sale recently after just a few weeks on the market and before bids could be submitted, HBI hears. But it could soon be back on the market, and HBI talks to three market experts to find out more about the aborted process, possible prices and suitors.

FREE BLOG New HBI pipeline tool reveals long-held investments 

Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.

A poacher turns gamekeeper: Austrian health care reform     

After 19 years as a health care services expert working as an investment banker, analyst and consultant, Martin Brunninger has returned to his native Austria to become director-general for healthcare and social care. In this role, he is responsible for reforming the entire health and social care system under the new reformist conservative coalition government which came to power in December 2017 and is likely to hold power for a few years. We talk to Brunninger about the likely changes and his change in role.

Interview: Dr Volker Wendel, Sanoptis CEO

How do you build a €100m European ophthalmology group without attracting headlines? HBI speaks to the CEO of the new kid on the block Sanoptis, which has a significant presence now in German and Switzerland, to find out why it has been deliberately operating under the radar – and how it’s managed to quietly build a €100m business in the space of a year.

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