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Norlandia buys Dutch kindergarten group

Norlandia, the nursing home, childcare and hospital hotel business, that is majority-owned by Norwegian property developers, the Adolfsen brothers, has made its first acquisition out of the Nordic region, with the purchase of KindeX, the Dutch childcare group. We talk to CEO Hilde-Britt Mellbye.

Ribon sets up new healthcare fund

Denis Ribon,former global head of healthcare at 3i, has set up a new business Archimed to invest in healthcare services, medtech and pharma in Western Europe.

Global Health Partner sees price drops but brighter outlook

The real problem in elective acute care in Sweden has been a series of price cuts, according to Daniel Ohlman, CEO of Global Health Partners, a chain of 20 ambulatory clinics mainly in Sweden, but also in Denmark with one in the United Arab Emirates.

Exeunt omnes

Europe's largest healthcare service companies are queueing up for the exit in 2014. Expect Apax-owned Capio, the Swedish, French, German, British hospital group, to seek an IPO in Sweden after the election. Euromedic, the Pan-European imaging services group, is also likely to IPO or go for a trade sale in the second half of 2013, as will Median Kliniken in Germany. Cinven-owned UK hospital chain Spire is veering towards a trade sale, but could also IPO. We look at prospects.

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