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Mehiläinen completes Regina Maria and MediGroup deals

Mehiläinen, Finland’s largest private healthcare company, has completed its acquisitions of Regina Maria, Romania’s largest private healthcare group, and its sister company MediGroup in Serbia, after receiving all required regulatory and investor approvals. Both deals have now formally closed.

Mehiläinen acquires Regina Maria and MediGroup, signalling growing investor confidence in CEE

Mehiläinen, Finland’s largest for-profit healthcare group, backed by Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners, has acquired Romania’s Regina Maria and Serbia’s MediGroup from private equity firm MidEuropa. The deal, which is said to be the largest ever healthcare services transaction in Central Europe, is pending regulatory approval and is expected to close later this year.

HBI 2023: Managing your costs in challenging times

Rising costs from inflation, wages, and energy are indiscriminately hitting the health care sector and despite government support packages being pledged, the road ahead looks arduous. So how do providers control costs, and what are the strategies to keep costs at bay?

HBI 2023: The outpatient differential

For years there has been a trend towards using outpatient services wherever possible - to improve patient outcomes, to better use an increasingly scarce workforce, and to increase cost efficiency. On the “Outpatient differential” panel at HBI 2023, how this push looks across the world was a key topic for discussion.

Digital health booming in CEE

Digital health is booming in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), boosted by several countries in the region introducing major policy initiatives to integrate telehealth solutions and digitise their health systems. CEE-based multinational law firm Kinstellar spells this out in its latest ‘Current eHealth trends in CEE and Turkey’ report.

Inflow of nurses to top five European markets

This week, HBI looks at the annual inflow of nurses from abroad to the big five Western European markets - the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain - using public data from OECD. Those looking for an outlier need look no further than the UK.

HBI 2021: Bright future for subscription model in Central and Eastern Europe

As Central and Eastern Europe gets richer, demand for healthcare services is growing faster than government spending, so there is a large opportunity for the private sector to fill the gap with private-pay. There is a lot of hope around the growth in popularity of the subscription model, which many employers seem to have a preference for over traditional health insurance. 

EMEA’s Top 100 largest groups by revenue revealed

HBI’s inaugural HBI Health Care Services Top 100 lists the largest 100 companies by EMEA health care services revenue. In total revenue their revenue came to over €105bn - and we've uncovered some surprising winners and losers. 

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