Parklands Care Homes is investing £11 million on a new flagship care home at Milton of Leys on the outskirts of Inverness.

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

Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Peter Farnes as a partner in its UK healthcare team

Florence, the London-based tech startup that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers, has appointed Ross Burton as NHS managing director.

Monument Therapeutics, a precision neuroscience company spun-out from Cambridge Cognition, has completed a fundraise and has received grant funding.

McCarthy Stone has launched a retirement village in Wimborne, Dorset comprising100 new specialist retirement properties.

CN Bio has raised $21 million in Series B funding.

Marstead Living has secured mortgage finance from Federated Hermes Private Credit to buy an 18-acre site in Mill Hill, north London.

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

Agincare has confirmed it has exchanged contracts to acquire two Somerset Care homes previously threatened with closure.

HC-One has cited rising inflation and pressure on publicly funded fees after posting a £63 million loss in the financial year ending September 2023.

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Cambridge-based techbio company Qureight has closed a “significantly oversubscribed” $8.5 million Series A funding round.

EMV Capital, which invests in deep tech companies, has led an investment into its portfolio company ProAxsis, a spin-out with a focus on respiratory diagnostics.

Specialist eye hospital group Optegra has appointed Chris Chisholm as clinical services director.

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

Oakland Care has gained planning consent for a new 75-bed care home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

Aurem Care, a care provider for older people, has appointed Daryl Martin as regional director (north).

Cambridge Cognition, which develops digital health products for brain health assessment, has appointed Alex Livingstone-Learmonth as chief commercial officer and Annabelle Miles as head of marketing.

Skills for Care, the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England, has appointed Peter Chambers to its board.

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

Bariatric and cosmetic surgery company Transform Healthcare has appointed Dr Sayani Sainudeen as chief executive, succeeding Tony Veverka.

Digital care platform Log My Care has secured £3 million from investor Mercia Ventures.

McCarthy Stone, a developer and manager of retirement communities, has appointed Jo Bennett as chief financial officer.

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Hallmark Luxury Care Home has officially opened Hallmark Willingdon Park Manor, a new, £21.6 million 85-bed residential, dementia and nursing home in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Care home management consultancy Fulcrum Care has appointed Becky Garnett-Buchma as managing director and Kelly Brosnan as commercial director.

EnteroBiotix, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing full-spectrum microbiome therapeutics, has completed a £27 million funding round.

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.

Hallmark Luxury Care Homes has acquired a 1.78-acre site in Cardiff, Wales.

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

Worthing-based private health check provider Bluecrest Wellness has appointed Dr Martin Thornton as chief medical officer.

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

Optegra Eye Health Care has appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon Mike Adams as its national NHS training lead.

Oslo-headquartered private healthcare provider Dr.Dropin is launching primary healthcare services to the UK by opening a clinic in Fulham.

Impact Healthcare REIT, a real estate investment trust comprising UK healthcare real estate assets, with a focus on care homes, has reported 2023 pre-tax-profit of £48.8 million.

Porthaven Care Homes has appointed Corby, Northamptonshire-based Kori Construction to build a £12.2 million care home in Milton Keynes.

Cornerstone Healthcare has secured Virgin Money funding for a multimillion-pound care home renovation.

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.

Paris-based biopharma private equity fund Jeito Capital has appointed Sarah Leroy to the newly created position of secretary general.

Business property advisor Christie & Co has appointed Oliver Potts as associate director in its medical valuation services team.

Nuclera, a biotechnology company enabling rapid protein expression and purification screening through its benchtop protein platform, has appointed Joseph Bertelsen as chief commercial officer.

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Spire Healthcare has opened its new £5.5 million Abergele Clinic,.

OSD Healthcare has appointed Phil Bates as its new chief executive.

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.

Westgate Healthcare has unveiled plans to develop and open two new care homes in Hertfordshire.

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

Integrated retirement community start-up Wallacea Living has appointed Sue Timney as creative director.

Target Healthcare REIT has reported that its contractual rent increased by 2.4% in the second half of 2023, compared to the previous six months.

Kepler Vision Technologies, a provider of software for patient wellbeing in elderly care facilities, has promoted Stephanie van Rosmalen to the new role of chief marketing officer.

Hallmark Luxury Care Homes has been granted planning permission to build a care home on a two-acre site in Woodford Green, East London.

Orchard Care Homes has appointed Geoff Edwards as director of operations overseeing the group’s central region.

Cinnamon Care Collection has refinanced two luxury homes with lender Leumi UK in a £23 million arrangement:

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

Independent hospital group Spire Healthcare Group has reported 2023 operating profit of £126.2 million, up 32.3% on 2022.

Private healthcare providers sent 10.2 million invoices to insurers through Healthcode’s online clearing service last year.

Primary Health Properties has reported 2023 profit of £27.3 million.

Birchgrove and Hybr are developing an intergenerational living scheme which will see retirees living in the same development as students and key workers.

Amsterdam-based diagnostic healthcare provider Affidea has announced the repricing of its debt structure and completion of a €200 million fungible term loan B.

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

Hallmark Luxury Care Home has opened a £23 million 80-bed, residential, dementia and nursing home in Bath.

Anchor, a not-for-profit provider of older people’s housing and care, has appointed Julia Mixter as executive director, business 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.

Biotechnology company MIP Discovery has closed a £7 million Series A financing round, led by Mercia Ventures.

Altius Group, the parent company of healthcare, childcare and education estate agent Redwoods Dowling Kerr (RDK), has appointed Martin Sloan as head of healthcare.

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

Lilli, which provides technology and services to enable people with health problems to live at home, has raised £8.2 million in Series A financing led by West Hill Capital.

Real estate investor and lender Octopus Real Estate has provided £35 million for three new care homes in the Octopus Healthcare Fund’s portfolio.

Investment manager AlphaReal has structured and invested £33 million of long income real estate-backed investments on behalf of the retirement company Just Group.

Oyster Care Homes is to open three care homes in the Southeast in April and May this year.

Graham Care Group has opened new Kent care home Whitstable House, which will provide long and short-term residential and nursing care.

Psychiatry UK has appointed Nell Montgomery as chief executive, Ben Iversen as chief financial officer, Anna Matty as interim chief operating officer, and Andrea Dowling as chief people officer.

Wren House-backed Voyage Care has appointed Mike McKessar as chief executive.

Birchgrove has secured planning permission to redevelop the site of a former police station in Chiswick, West London into a 50-unit retirement living community.

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

Maxion Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing antibody-based drugs for previously untreatable ion channel- and GPCR-driven diseases, has appointed Dr Arndt Schottelius as chief executive.

Mental health company Cygnet has opened a new hospital in Mansfield to support men with mental health problems.

Christie & Co has appointed Eve-Angelica Apperley as a business agent in its healthcare brokerage team.

London-based home care provider Vivant has appointed Kelly Morris as director of care operations.

CN Bio, an organ-on-a-chip company that designs and manufactures single-and multi-organ microphysiological systems, has appointed Joseph Parisi as US director of sales.

McGoff Group is developing Herne Bay, a multi-use elderly care and retirement living site in Herne Bay, Kent.

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

Enhanc3D Genomics, which develops disruptive technologies to unlock the 3D spatial genome for target and biomarker discovery, has appointed Dr Daniel Turner as chief scientific officer.

A statement of affairs published on Companies House says around 514 companies and individuals are owed a total of £293m by LloydsPharmacy.

Construction company Stepnell has begun refurbishment works for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at Walton Hospital, Chesterfield,

Cambridge Cognition, which provides cognitive assessment software for clinical trials, academic research and healthcare, has reported an adjusted operating loss of £1.2 million for 2023.

Cambridge Cognition, which provides software for clinical trials, academic research and healthcare, has appointed Stuart Gall and Nick Rodgers as non-executive directors.

Enterprise Therapeutics has closed a £26 million Series B follow-on financing round, led by Panakes Partners.

Private healthcare provider HCA Healthcare UK today officially opened The Harborne Hospital in Birmingham.

Specialist and complex care provider Cornerstone Healthcare Group has appointed Paul Hayes as chief executive.

Sano Genetics, a software company in the precision medicine research field, has raised $11.4 million in funding, led by Plural.

Care England, the representative body for independent adult social care, has appointed Majesticare’s chief executive Angela Boxall as its new chair, succeeding Avnish Goyal.

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

Cylera and Integra e-Quip have forged an alliance to enhance healthcare cyber defence and IoT asset management