European mid-market PE firm Inflexion has sold European LifeCare Group (ELCG), a Denmark-based outpatient group focused on providing vaccination services with clinics in four European countries, to German PE firm Findos.
Air Liquide, a French multinational company supplying gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare, has acquired two outpatient intensive care companies, intensivLeben GmbH and AP-Sachsen GmbH, both based in Germany.
CUF, Portugal’s largest private hospital group by revenue, has opened 12 new outpatient health centres in the Greater Lisbon area, to “provide a care response closer to where people live and work”.
Affidea, a pan-European diagnostics and outpatient group, has acquired Uroviva Group, a Swiss urology network, from German Equity Partners IV, a Frankfurt-based buyout fund managed by ECM Equity Capital Management.
Stefano Bison is CEO of Humanitas Medical Care, the outpatient division of Italy’s Humanitas Group. In an interview with HBI, he explained the group's new model of holistic, longevity-focused and personalised outpatient care.
Northwest Healthcare REIT, a Canada-headquartered multinational listed healthcare REIT specialising in inpatient facilities, is issuing C$500 million (~$352 million) worth of bonds as part of its strategy to strengthen its balance sheet.
Switzerland has voted to overhaul how its healthcare system is financed. Inpatient and outpatient care will both be financed in the same way from 2028, which should enable private outpatient clinics to compete on a more level playing field with public hospitals, particularly in specialisms which are increasingly done on an outpatient basis, such as ophthalmology.
Germany’s cabinet coalition government has collapsed. This means a major reform launched by (soon to be former) Health Minister Karl Lauterbach which in its original form proposed effectively banning “locust” investors from buying outpatient facilities, but had subsequently been heavily watered down, will now not be passed at all. The desire to increase restrictions on private investment may live on in future governments, however.
Last week Germany’s “traffic light” coalition government collapsed. This means (soon to be former) Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s once-much-feared MVZ reform will not go through at all, as it was yet to be passed by either of the houses of Germany’s legislature.
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