Affidea subsidiary Fortius Clinic, which is the UK's largest orthopaedics company, is acquiring Schoen Clinic London, an orthopaedics hospital in central London which is part of Germany-based Schoen Clinic Group.
US-based nonprofit American academic medical centre Mayo Clinic has offered "unconditional" financial support - at least until January 31, 2024 - to its London facility, despite the latter losing millions. Meanwhile, Cleveland Clinic continues to expand in the UK capital.
James Tughenhadt, CEO at UK nursing home group HC-One, joined it in the eye of the Covid storm. As the UK wrestles with the largest healthcare workforce strike in recent history, he sat down with HBI to discuss the importance of investing in staff, and his group's ongoing response to the staffing crisis.
The sales process for the remaining bulk of financially troubled UK care home operator Four Seasons' assets has not been quick. HBI speaks to a market expert and to the group's property advisors to ask why the sale is taking so long.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said the proposed merger between dental groups Portman Dental Care and Dentex Healthcare raises competition issues, and will be investigated further unless suitable undertakings are received.
Tom Riall is standing down as CEO of UK-based dental group mydentist, and will take up the role of executive chairman from April 1. His replacement has been announced.
Healios, which provides digital mental health and neurodevelopmental services for young people and children in the UK, is planning major expansion in the UK in the face of unprecedented demand.
Five of the largest UK university hospitals, with a total revenue of £6.2bn, have come together to compete more effectively in the international market for hospital and medical consulting as the King’s International Consortium (KIC). But will they be able to compete with the big US academic medical centres which dominate international tertiary medicine, or with Korean and Indian players who offer lower cost and more flexible hospital management?
The gap between doctors pay in the public and private sectors is rising steeply, according to international recruitment agencies. In some cases doctors are getting almost twice as much in the latter.
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