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Foundation Partners Asset Management and Deer Capital have acquired Hartford Care Homes.

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Morrison Community Care Group has acquired a development site with planning permission for an 81-bedroom care home in Ewell, Surrey.

Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired Abbey Wood Lodge, a 60-bed, purpose-built care home in Ormskirk, Lancashire.

Care provider Anavo has acquired five Scottish care homes which it has managed since 2021 following their entering administration.

Spire Healthcare Group has sold one of its leasehold hospitals, Spire Tunbridge Wells, to the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

Ashberry Healthcare, a boutique care provider focused on small community living, has acquired Engelberg Care Home in Wolverhampton from Methodist Homes.

Six Physio, has acquired Bodies Under Construction London, comprising two physiotherapy, Pilates and wellness clinics in Chiswick and Putney.

The Orders of St John Care Trust has expanded its private pay offering with its acquisition of luxury care home provider, Elmfield Care.

Pebbles has acquired BDT Care Solutions, which operates four homes for children and young people in South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

BYG4lab is acquiring Finbiosoft, a software provider for medical laboratories.

British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company AstraZeneca is acquiring Lyon-based Amolyt Pharma for up to $1.05 billion in total consideration.

Private equity investment manager Foresight Group has sold its portfolio company Specac to an unnamed US-based private equity investor.

Aspire Pharma, a specialty generics business, has acquired Cenoté Pharma, a specialist in carnitine deficiencies.

Answer Digital has acquired Interneuron, a provider of specialist health and care digital systems.

Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired from Clariane 11 properties and simultaneously leased them back to Berkley Care Group.

Private medical insurer AXA Health has acquired Healthcare Business Solutions (UK) (HBSUK), a provider of online outpatient services.

Lovett Care has purchased a site from property developer Aspire at Kings Hill, Kent to build a care home on the former West Malling airfield.

Person Centred Software has acquired ResHub, a platform that helps care workers with planning, wellness and activities, medication management and care home operations.

LNT Care Developments has purchased a 66-bedroom care home site in St Andrews Park Halling, Kent from property developer Aspire for £2.88million.

Aedifica has invested approximately €25 million in six care homes in the Netherlands, acquiring the remaining 50% stake of its joint venture with Korian.

Bupa Health Clinics has bought Blackberry Clinics, a UK-based specialist in treating muscle, bone, and joint conditions.

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Healthcare data company Egress Group has acquired Stalis, a healthcare data migration and archiving company.

London-based private physiotherapy business, Six Physio, has acquired Chelsea Home Physio, a home physiotherapy provider.

Scottish care group Enhance Healthcare has added a further 189 beds across four homes on the Ayrshire coast in Scotland.

Cataract surgery products company Rayner is acquiring Swiss-based This AG, the inventor, developer and manufacturer of Sophi phaco emulsification machines.

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A&M Capital Europe has acquired a majority stake in GBUK Group, a provider of acute-setting medical devices, from H2 Equity Partners.

Inuvi, a provider of domiciliary health assessments, has acquired a medical evidence gathering and rehabilitation services provider.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is in “early talks” over divesting Boots, its UK-based drugstore chain, Bloomberg News has reported.

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Stirling Square Capital Partners has sold specialist education provider Outcomes First Group to private equity firm TPG’s global impact investing vehicle The Rise Fund.

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Parklands Care has acquired Craigard Care Group, a portfolio of three care homes on behalf of the joint administrators Graham Smith and Tom MacLennan of FRP Advisory.

Mysa Care has acquired supported living provider PoC based in Ystrad Mynach, South Wales.

The Competition and Markets Authority is looking into the merger of the UK’s two largest online pharmacies.

The Progress Group has acquired MyWorkMode, a digital marketplace that connects care providers with care workers.

Gold Care Homes has acquired three additional homes.

For-profit healthcare services intelligence platform and conference organiser HBI has been bought by a European PE onference organiser.

Private equity firm Stirling Square is close to divest specialist education provider Outcomes First Group (OFG)

Real estate lender and investor Octopus Real Estate has added Manor Farm in Old Malton, North Yorkshire to Octopus Healthcare Fund’s portfolio.

The transaction comes on the heels of the immuno-oncology contract research business, Antibody Analytics, which was acquired in early November.

London-based private equity investor Perwyn has acquired a number of veterinary clinics and rebranded them as Kin Vet Community, led by chief executive Ciara McCormack.

Medivet has resumed its acquisition drive following its run in with the Competition and Markets Authority by purchasing Torquay-based Animal Health Centre.

It was announced that “over time” the two operations are expected to merge under the Pharmacy2U brand.

Kelso Pharma, a UK-based specialty pharma business, has acquired an Italian specialty pharma company as part of its European expansion plans.

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DC Advisory, a global investment bank, has announced today the acquisition of IBI Corporate Finance in Ireland.

Healthcare insurer AXA has acquired Laya Healthcare for €650 million.

London-based medical device company Belluscura has made a possible share-for-share offer of £6 million for investment projects company TMT Acquisition.

Kingsley has acquired Catchpole Court Nursing Home and St Mary’s Care Home from Four Seasons Health Care Group.

Care Fertility Group has acquired IVF treatment provider Centre for Reproduction & Gynaecology Wales in the Southwest.

Newcastle upon Tyne-based property, care and leisure company Malhotra Group has purchased three Four Seasons Health Care homes located in Howdon, Morpeth and Blyth.

Clinisupplies, a manufacturer and supplier of continence care consumables based in Watford, has acquired the Aquaflush transanal irrigation business from Renew.

Family-owned healthcare operator Ann’s Care Homes has a purchased a portfolio of seven care homes in Northern Ireland from Larchwood Care (NI).

RDi, an automated, data-led healthcare fulfilment specialist, has acquired MedDXand Shuttlepac, this publication can reveal.

Spire Healthcare Group has acquired Vita Health Group, a provider of mental and physical health services owned by ArchiMed, for £74 million.

Ardian-backed imes-icore has advanced to the second round of bids, with several PE firms expressing interest, according to market sources.

Athena Care Home Group has acquired a pair of Cambridge care homes, Langdon House and Alex Wood House.

Ideal Carehomes has been acquired by HC-One, one of the UK's largest care providers, from Warwick Capital Partners and LNT Group.

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EMK Capital-backed Onebright has acquired Psicon, which provides neurodevelopmental assessments for autism and ADHD.

mydentist has acquired three dental practices in Birmingham from Dr Sandeep Kumar in Aston, Great Barr and Handsworth.

Todays Dental has purchased Harborne Dental Practice in Birmingham, a three-surgery, predominantly private dental practice.

Healthcare operations technology provider, Agilio Software, has acquired iatro, which provides patient-facing digital solutions for NHS organisations.

Halifax will acquire Sodexo's Worldwide Home Care with subsidiaries in the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, France, Brazil and the US.

Nursing home provider Amica Care has acquired Ernstell House, a nursing home in Plymouth.

Rented retirement home provider Birchgrove has purchased a £36 million development in Mill Hill, North London.

SpringCare has acquired The Chace Care Home in Great Malvern, Worcestershire.

Boutique Care Homes has bought Connors House in Canterbury. The new addition will generate over 80 full-time job opportunities.

August Equity-backed Agilio Software has announced the acquisition of Colourful CPD, a provider of non clinical training to the veterinary industry.

The sale of HBSUK, a provider of clinical insourcing to the NHS, will start with information memoranda (IM) being distributed to prospective bidders in a few weeks.

Dentex has acquired Queensway Group in the North East through co-ownership, in a deal brokered by specialist property advisor Christie & Co, HealthInvestor can reveal.

Borough Care has purchased a development site with consent for a 76-bedroom, home scheme.

Nourish Care has acquired CarePlanner, which provides home care planning software used by more than 2,000 domiciliary care agencies.

Athena Care Homes has bought two care homes, Alex Wood House and Langdon House in Cambridge, from CHS Group.

Cheshire social care charity We Change Lives has acquired residential care business 3L Care Group for an undisclosed sum.

Supported living and domiciliary care group Optimo Care Group has completed the acquisition of Abbey Care, HealthInvestor can reveal.

Primary Health Properties, a real estate investment trust that invests in modern primary healthcare facilities, is acquiring Ireland’s first Enhanced Community Care (ECC) facility at Ballincollig, near Cork.

Kester Capital has acquired GXP Engaged, a provider of Good Clinical/Pharmacovigilance Practice audit and related consulting services to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.

MAS Networks, also known as CareLineLive, a home care management software company, has acquired C4 Ulysses.

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US medical insurance company Centene has put its UK-based GP service Operose up for sale.

Private equity firm Permira has agreed to buy Guildford-based biopharmaceutical company Ergomed for about £703.1 million.

Nomad Travel has acquired a private travel clinic from Hallo Healthcare Group, the holding company for various UK's healthcare organisations.

A Japanese infrastructure investment manager has bought a share in the Queen Alexandra Hospital PFI from InfraRed Capital Partners.

Highlands care home operator Parklands Care Homes has formally acquired two Moray care homes.

Optibrium has acquire BioPharmics, a developer of algorithms and software for 3D ligand and structure-based computational drug design.

Archimed SAS has acquired Instem which provides IT services used in drug development for the global life sciences market, for $203 million.

Pan-European fund Fremman Capital has acquired another insourcing provider through Medinet, HealthInvestor can reveal.

LDC-backed occupational health and corporate health services provider PAM Group has acquired Corporate Health Ireland.

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PAM Group has announced it is expanding its occupational health services with acquisition in Newcastle.

Doccla has acquired OpenTeleHealth (OTH), a cloud-based remote patient monitoring platform.

Phoenix Hospital Group is acquiring One Healthcare, the operator of One Ashford Hospital in Kent and One Hatfield Hospital in Hertfordshire.

The Access Group, a provider of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations, has acquired Oysta Technology which specialises in care tech solutions.