Listed UK outpatient group Totally is buying the entire share capital of Pioneer Healthcare Limited, a provider of specialist NHS secondary care insourcing and outsourcing services.
In July 2021, Finland’s leftist parliament passed the long-awaited SOTE reform to its healthcare system, which amalgamated 309 municipal health authorities into 21 much larger ‘welfare regions’. HBI speaks to analysts and operators to find out what impact the reform is having on the for-profit sector.
Terveystalo, one of Finland’s two for-profit healthcare giants, saw strong growth in 2021, helped by its recent move into Sweden and a Covid boost. We speak to Terveystalo’s head of investor relations and two analysts, to analyse growth drivers.
A major French operator, the Doctegestio group, has launched a new platform called Avec which combines everything from dentistry and primary care to hospital and nursing homes. We talk to Bernard Bensaid, the entrepreneur behind Avec.
In contrast to other European countries such as the UK, Ireland and Sweden, France is not currently seeing consolidation of its primary care sector by major corporate entities. HBI speaks to Thomas Breuvart, associate and investor in healthcare at French evergreen investment firm Creadev, to find out why.
A five and a half year education (Batchelor + Masters) as a doctor for just €100,000? That is what is on offer from EDU Malta, a for-profit educational institute with statutes which commit it to working for the public good. It is working closely with Fresenius Helios and other German hospitals and is looking for hospital partners in other countries. So how does it work, what are EDU’s plans and what role could this play in dealing with the massive world shortage of doctors?
Dutch telehealth group Quin has collaborated with the company behind one of the world's most popular symptom checkers, Ada Health, in order to integrate its symptom-checking tool into the Quin platform. HBI catches up with Quin's CEO and Ada's chief clinical officer to find out more.
The Greek health care services sector continues to consolidate as rivals face up to near certainty that CVC, which owns the largest hospital group in Greece, Hellenic Healthcare Group, will finally get the green flag for its acquisition of Ethniki Insurance. That would create a dominant payor/provider. So how does that affect number two hospital player Athens Medical and Bioatriki, the largest lab network?
Global investment firm KKR has closed a $4bn fund dedicated to health care growth equity investment opportunities primarily in Europe and North America.
Big US managed care company Centene has stated that it is conducting a strategic review of its international arm - Circle Health in the UK and Grupo Ribera Salud in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.
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