M&A is picking up in the European imaging sector this week with Affidea and Naxicap buying big in Italy and Switzerland, respectively, and a top-five German imaging group reportedly in the middle of a sales process.
Finland’s parliament has passed a version of the long-awaited healthcare reform, known as SOTE. HBI hears that it’s nowhere near as interesting as the original version.
Russia's second-largest healthcare operator by revenue, European Medical Center (EMC), has announced an intention to float in Moscow but will not be raising any proceeds from the process.
Mubadala Health, the integrated health network of sovereign investor Mubadala, has added speciality fertility and women's health services to its network and expanded into Saudi with the acquisition of UEMedical. It now claims to be the largest IVF provider in the region.
Outpatient group Gajda-Med has won Poland's multi-million euro contract to deliver first-contact telehealth services for the Polish NHS. It follows a recent trend of private sector companies moving to work on national hotlines, including in Sweden and Switzerland, and it is very controversial where operators already own physical clinics.
Finnish outpatient and occupational healthcare specialist Mehiläinen has been chosen as a provider of public primary health services in Helsinki. This is the first time that public care outsourcing has happened in the capital, Markku Näreneva, Mehiläinen's Director of Public Health Services tells HBI.
Admissions to private hospitals in the UK are still well below pre-pandemic levels with activity in January and February down on last year. The expected demand boost for private healthcare due to NHS waiting list pressures is yet to materialise.
PE firm Mid Europa has pushed back its exit horizon for Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria to 2024 at the earliest, three years later than it planned to pre-Covid. Regina Maria grew revenues 27% in 2020.
Fleury Group, the second largest diagnostics group in Brazil, has signed an agreement to buy a two-thirds stake in orthopaedic and rehabilitation specialist Vita Ortopedia Servicos Especializados. This continues its march towards becoming an integrated platform.
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