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FREE BLOG Sale and leaseback anyone?

The cheapest way to finance the renovation of public hospitals may be sovereign debt. But increasingly that is no longer an option. And that is a huge opportunity for institutional investors...

Alliance Medical CEO quits in boardroom dispute

After just a year in the job Philippe Houssiau, the CEO of imaging services group Alliance Medical has quit. Non-exec chairman Chris Hughes (who joined in December 2010) will step into the breech until a new bod can be found. So what's gone wrong?...

Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?

Set up a business in July 2011 with a medtech product, buy a small UK ambulance business, IPO on the Frankfurt stock market in October and then make more acquisitions through bond issues. Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?...

What has Circle signed up for?

After a year of umming and ahhing the UK Treasury has signed the first contract which places the management of a public sector NHS hospital in the hands of a private operator - Circle Holdings. But what has Circle really signed up for?...

Ameos finds new investor

Ameos, the German hospital and rehabilitation chain has finally found a new investor in private equity house Carlyle Group. We hear it has contribued an extra €200m of equity....

Crisis for Swedish nursing homes

Stockholm council has decided to temporarily halt further outsourcing of care homes to private contractors, following newspaper coverage of problems at a Carema Care owned care home, Koppargarden, which has hit national headlines. Our sources say that other councils across Sweden may follow suit. The situation is also likely to impact private rival Attendo, which is for sale....

IHH to buy Acibadem and float

Integrated Healthcare Holdings Sdn Bhd is planning an initial public offering that may raise $2 billion following its acquisition of Acibadem, the premier Turkish hospital chain. Investment bank sources told Healthcare Europa that the IPO is likely to value IHH at $7-8bn....

Global buys into chain which halves cost of primary care sessions

Global Health Partners, the Swedish headquartered international clinic chain, has taken a minority stake in Laastari Lähiklinikka, a Finnish drop in primary healthcare chain modeled on the US Minute Clinic chain.  Laastari Lähiklinikka  CEO Ville  Ohman claims that the concept more than halves the price of primary patient sessions.  The plan is to push them into pharmacy chains....

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