The UK has signed a preliminary labour agreement with Nepal to allow recruitment of Nepali healthcare professionals in the UK health sector, starting with nurses. This has been questioned by a workforce expert.
Potential buyers of Four Seasons Health Care Group’s (FSHC) 110 homes must place their bids before the end of September, insists Christie & Co, the business broker in charge of the sale.
The US$15bn KKR acquisition of Australia-based Ramsay may not go ahead, owing to consistent problems with the hospital group’s French subsidiary. HBI chats to an Australian analyst to find out more.
Private pay dentistry is booming according to multiple sources in the UK, while finding a dentist free to take on new NHS patients is “like looking for a unicorn” as the profession collectively criticises reimbursement rates, and leaves for more lucrative private work.
HBI hears that pan-European and dentist-led European Dental Group (EDG) could be up for sale soon. HBI takes a look at the business and possible pricing at a time when dentistry continues to be a hot ticket.
HBI chats with Peter Fish, CEO of Mendelian, a company which combines patient medical records with the most-up-to date academic data on risk factors, using big data to uncover the patterns that doctors are missing and find the undiagnosed sufferers of rare diseases.
NVM Capital has bought a majority stake in Yorktest, the largest UK food intolerance testing lab. The company, which has doubled sales in two years, plans to expand in the USA where it faces Everlywell, which is valued at several billion dollars.
US healthcare giant Centene confirmed it has sold its Spanish and Central European subsidiaries to French private hospital group Vivalto Santé, but has yet to find a buyer for Circle Health, the second largest UK hospital chain.
UK-based elderly care providers Four Seasons Healthcare Group is for sale, again, this time putting 111 of its 130 care homes up for sale in two weeks time.
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