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Malaysia emerges as a preferred hub for healthcare PE investments

The Southeast Asian country Malaysia has recently witnessed a surge in private healthcare investments. This is particularly evident in the country’s top for-profit hospital provider IHH Healthcare’s latest acquisition of Island Hospital, a 600-bed private facility in Penang, Malaysia, for £970 million from the private equity (PE) firm Affinity Equity Partners. The Malaysian healthcare sector ripe for healthcare PE investments.
September 27, 2024

Healthcare investment “through the bottom of the cycle” — Goldberg (Rothschild)

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.
June 20, 2024

Three things we learned at Global Health, Riyadh

HBI attended the Global Health Exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and saw first-hand how the country is changing ahead of its 2030 transformation plan. Here are our three key takeaways from the event.
November 2, 2023

See the Global Top 50 by Market Cap

Who are the Global Top 50 Health Care Service Companies by market cap and what does this tell us about the industry? What is striking is how very few of the top 50 are now EMEA companies - just 13, and of those only four are headquartered in Europe, rather than the Middle East or South Africa. 
August 11, 2023

Interview: Annabelle Neame, VP for new markets and innovation, HCA UK

HBI catches up with Annabelle Neame, vice president for new markets and innovation at top five UK hospital player HCA UK, and hears how HCA and others are using concierge services to help tourists navigate tricky foreign patient pathways as London is increasingly “more on the map” for health care tourism.
July 28, 2023

17 things we learned at HBI 2023: Our key insights and takeaways

Our annual conference took place earlier this week in London. Over a jam-packed three days of HBI 2023, an impressive array of delegates from across Europe and beyond gathered in the heart of London and shared their insights into the myriad challenges and abundant opportunities the sector faces, and offered their views on how some of them might be addressed. Here are some of our key takeaways.
June 23, 2023

UK warns off Turkey after deaths

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has issued a travel warning following the deaths of 22 British nationals who sought medical treatment in Turkey. The country has recently seen a tsunami of patients taking the trip due to a failing NHS in England and the promise of more affordable cosmetic surgeries. HBI speaks to three Turkey-based analysts to understand whether the safeguarding concerns are warranted and what impact the warnings could have on the medical tourism industry.
January 6, 2023
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