HBI hears that the sale of UK-based private dental partnership network Dentex is underway, and catches up with a well-placed source to find out more about first-round bidders and pricing.
This week UK healthcare charity Nuffield Trust opened a hospital in its first central London site, located within the grounds of Barts Health NHS Trust’s St Bartholomew’s Hospital site, while Cleveland Clinic last week opened a large facility in Grosvenor Place, also in central London.
Healthcare property investor Octopus Real Estate is entering the specialist care market, spending £100m on a deal to purchase two sites from and finance the construction of a further four sites for UK care provider The Hamberley Care Group. Four of these sites will be rehab centres and two will be care homes.
HBI hears that the surprise buyer of European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) may not have been the highest bidder, despite winning out. HBI considers who else was in the running, and the EBITDA figure that may have been used for the deal.
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (“GBL”) has signed definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea from B-FLEXION, the private investment firm of the Switzerland-based billionaire Bertarelli family. GBL will invest up to €1bn of equity for the transaction which is its first substantive healthcare investment.
This week, we look at the extent to which the for-profit dentistry market is consolidated in five major European countries – France, Germany, UK, Spain and Italy. These figures are a snapshot of the position based on revenues in 2020 taken from HBI Intelligence - and show why interest in dentistry is so high.
UK telehealth provider Attend Anywhere saw 94% of its one-year NHS contracts that were up for tender renewed this month, with the majority of the renewed contracts being for two or three years. This means it will remain the major provider of telehealth services to NHS outpatient departments for at least the next two years.
At the height of Covid, NHS-focussed dental practices calmly told HBI that their revenues were covered by government payments, and their dental activity targets had been slashed or temporarily abandoned. It was a good time to have a strong NHS patient bias. HBI speaks to Simon Turton, CEO and co-founder of UK dental chain Gensmile and panellist at HBI 2022, to hear how the tide may be turning in favour of private funding.
This week we looked at perceived healthcare quality across selected European countries last year based on research conducted by market research company IPSOS.
After a rough 2020, the UK’s largest teleradiology company, Medica, achieved strong results in 2021, with sales reaching £62m (a 68% increase from 2020 and a 33% increase from 2019), and a healthy 19.5% operating margin. We speak to CEO Stuart Quin to find out more.
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