UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled plans for a decade-long reform programme for the National Health Service, potentially opening up new avenues for private sector involvement in the UK’s creaking public health system.
Lord Ara Darzi's eagerly anticipated independent review of the National Health Service (NHS) paints a stark picture of a health system in "critical condition" but with "vital signs" that remain strong.
Sweden-based global medtech company Getinge is going to acquire 100% of US-based organ transport products and services company Paragonix Technologies, for approximately $477 million.
At last year’s conference Hedley Goldberg, Managing Director at multinational investment bank Rothschild, predicted healthcare M&A activity would begin picking up again in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024. But we’re now halfway through 2024 and there are still very few deals above €500m taking place. Goldberg is confident, however, that we have now passed through the bottom of the cycle.
A common refrain at the Pan-European Procurement Summit in Brussels was that price and quality are the two biggest concerns for procurement professionals. HBI heard plenty on price – especially price transparency – but rather than quality, attention turned to the growing concerns of sustainability and digitalisation.
Private equity firm Permira has agreed to sell healthcare equipment service provider Althea to oncology platform Inframedica Sarl, which is owned by infrastructure investors F2i and DWS.
In July 2021, Finland’s leftist parliament passed the long-awaited SOTE reform to its healthcare system, which amalgamated 309 municipal health authorities into 21 much larger ‘welfare regions’. HBI speaks to analysts and operators to find out what impact the reform is having on the for-profit sector.
British Medical Auctions (BMA), an auction house specialised in selling second hand medical equipment that UK hospitals no longer need, has a new owner in TBAuctions, a subsidiary of the largest auction house in Europe. HBI catches up with BMA’s founder and CEO, Markus Grad, to find out more about what the company does and its plans for future growth.
Imaging AI solutions which can read images just as well as radiologists are now demonstrably effective medical products that will revolutionise the medical imaging industry forever. $1.5bn in VC funding has been ploughed into companies developing solutions whose tech promises to transform diagnosis and improve operational efficiency. We talk to seven of them who've commercialised products in 2019/20, operators using them, and look at the sector in detail in this long-read feature.
Switzerland's largest private hospital group Hirslanden's investment in a self-proclaimed 'disruptive' procurement outfit does not affect its cooperation with the procurement hub of German hospital Sana, parent company Mediclinic tells HBI. But the group has yet to reveal what it has gotten out of the cooperation with Sana.
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