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Healthcare technology provider Tunstall Healthcare has appointed Mark Hindle as managing director.
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Healthcare data migration and archiving company Stalis has appointed Damian Pearce as chief commercial officer.
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Ewan Bramley Dental Care in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, has sold to two associates at the practice.
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Thena Capital, a specialist venture capital firm backing early-stage UK-based medical technology start-ups, has announced a first close at £27 million, targeting a £50 million fund.
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HealthInvestor understands supported living firm Consensus is up for sale.
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As the House of Commons rejects the amendment which would have exempted social care providers from the employer’s national insurance rise, we gather some reactions from the sector.
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Regional care home group Holmwood House Holdings has acquired Norwood House, a 59-bedroom specialist dementia care home in Saxmundham, Suffolk,
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HealthInvestor understands that supported living firm Lifeways is in a process led by Rothschild & Co.
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Mental health company Cygnet has acquired three specialist care homes previously operated by Oakview Care Services.
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Welltower looks to be close to buying north-west based care home group Athena Healthcare Group.
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A new care home is set to open in Doncaster next month, supporting adults with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities.
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Bankhouse Nursing Home, a nursing care facility local to Blaenau Gwent in South Wales has sold to the manager of Oxford Care Homes and BIRA Care Homes.
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Yorkshire-based care home company Strong Life Care has acquired Cooper House in Bradford for a seven-figure sum.
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Parklands Care Homes is launching a £4m expansion of its care facilities in Tain and Grantown-on-Spey to increase its capacity.
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Spire Healthcare Group has appointed Sir David Sloman as a non-independent non-executive director.
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Northern Irish pharmacy chain Gordons Chemists has exited the Scottish market, selling its nine Scottish pharmacies to M&D Green Dispensing Chemists.
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Broxburn Dental Practice has been sold to first-time buyers (and sisters) Maria Guillermina Landivar Taborga and Vivian Carolina Landivar Taborga. Christie & Co served as advisors on the deal.
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London-based Care REIT¸ which invests in a portfolio of healthcare real estate assets, has agreed terms on a deal to be acquired by the New York-listed CareTrust REIT.
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North west-based care home group Athena Healthcare Group is up for sale, according to sources.
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Mental health company Cygnet has acquired Newton House, a mental health service in Blackpool.
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Eleanor Healthcare Group has acquired the Close Care Home.
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South African hospital giant Mediclinic is reportedly looking to divest from Spire.
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Spire Healthcare’s FY24 results show the group met many of the guidance measures, despite a changing market. However the share price dropped by 15%.
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HealthInvestor understands a deal for UK cancer care business Genesis Care is in the documentation stage. The group denies it.
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Sources suggest Community Health and Eyecare will be sold later this year.
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International radiotherapy and cancer care group Amethyst is believed to be up for sale.
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HealthInvestor understands that a bidding process for MyDentist has begun.
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Sovereign Capital Partners-backed Eden Futures, a provider of supported living services has acquired Care Wish based in Dudley and Sandwell in the West Midlands.
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Three pharmacies, located in north Yorkshire, west Yorkshire and Lancashire, have been sold to independent buyers.
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Hartford Care has acquired a residential care home site in Eastleigh, Hampshire to be developed by Highwood Group.
Real estate
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Medneo, a provider of diagnostic imaging services to NHS trusts and private healthcare providers, has appointed Ella Tracey as chief executive, replacing Andy Spellman.
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Private eye care provider OCL Vision has secured a multimillion-pound investment from growth capital investor BGF.
Opthalmology
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Healthcare real estate investment trust Assura has exchanged on the disposal of seven assets for a gross consideration of £64 million.
Real estate
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Scottish care home group Meallmore is reportedly preparing for an exit with an advisor ready to take the firm to market.
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Hvivo, an early-stage contract research organisation has acquired Cryo-Store, a provider of temperature-controlled storage solutions for biological and clinical materials.
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Real estate advisor CBRE has appointed Sarah Livingston as head of its UK healthcare sector.
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Everest Pharmacy has acquired five pharmacies located across Bolton and Accrington from Sykes Chemist Group..
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Affinity Care Consortium has purchased Asquith Hall Care Home in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
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Several expert sources have suggested a regional Scotland-based care home group is up for sale. The group has denied it.
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Kromek Group plc (AIM:KMK), a developer of radiation and bio-detection technology solutions, has received the first $25m payment under its enablement agreement with Siemens Medical Solutions USA.
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Apposite Capital-backed Kelso Pharma has acquired Milton Keynes-based pharma business, Alturix Holdings.
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Nuclera, a biotechnology company enabling rapid protein expression and purification screening through its benchtop protein platform, has appointed William J Kullback as a non-executive director.
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Level Zero Health has raised £5.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Zürich-based financial institution Redalpine.
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Elevation Development Partners has completed the development and sale of three new-build care homes to Pierval Santé, a real estate fund of Euryale, a European asset manager.
Real estate
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Boutique Care Homes secured planning permission from Dover District Council yesterday to build Catherine Grove care home in Deal, Kent.
Real estate
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Mental health company Cygnet is opening Cygnet Elowen Hospital in Shipley, Derbyshire, in the summer, a new 24-bed hospital for women with eating disorders and mental health issues.
Clinical services
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As part of the plan to bust NHS backlogs and improve early diagnosis, the Government plans to expand the use of community diagnostic centres (CDCs). But what is the state of CDCs?
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The Schoen Clinic Group has opened Wellen Court, Schoen Clinic York, a nursing home with 24/7 care for people with complex dementia and its associated behaviours.
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Preferred Homes has completed its £16.3 million Hunslet Moor House development in Leeds, comprising 63 self-contained apartments.
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Kara Healthcare has acquired six care homes in the Northeast from administrators and lender ThinCats, alongside another from family-run operator Peterborough Care.
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GE HealthCare is investing $138 million to expand its Carrigtohill, Cork contrast media fill and finish manufacturing site in Ireland.
Diagnostics
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Natural large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are being used across the economy. But while they can make healthcare better, how can you use them ethically and safely? We chat to Charles Cross, co-founder of Emma AI, to find out more.
Interview
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Cambridge Cognition, which provides cognitive assessment software for clinical trials, academic research and healthcare, has appointed Jonathan Kempster as an independent non-executive director.
Technology
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Care England CEO Martin Green says the way in which local authorities commission care makes them “complicit with modern slavery”. Multiple sources on and off the record say tens of thousands of international care workers are stranded in the UK.
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Zephyr X has taken out an £8.8 million bridging loan to support a purpose-built 70-bed care home and seven supported living apartments in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Real estate
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Business property advisor Christie & Co has appointed Emily Brown as a senior consultant in its healthcare consultancy team.
Real estate
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Operating rooms could operate better with a helping hand from technology. That’s the view of Nadine Hachach-Haram, founder of Proximie, a company she describes as the “operating system for the operating room”.
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Luxury care home provider North Bay has sold a portfolio of six homes across the north of England for £100m.
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Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired land and agreed forward funding to support the development of a care home in Otley, Yorkshire,
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Cority Software has acquired Medical Management Systems, trading as Meddbase, which was the first cloud-native clinical software solution designed for healthcare providers in the UK.
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The European health tech market raised $10.8bn in 2024, making it the most funded sector of the year according to data from Dealroom.co.
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Specialist support service Consensus has acquired residential care and support provider Creative Care.
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Medimatch’s MBO has been supported by Queen’s Park Equity (QPE). The digitalised dental laboratories group MediMatch will use this as a springboard for consolidation.
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Athena Care Homes has appointed Lorna Rose as its new chief executive.
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The NHS is partnering with ophthalmology giants Optegra to reduce the waiting times for glaucoma treatment.
Private public partnerships
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Social care experts widely see the Casey Review’s 2028 release date as a delay tactic and wonder if some businesses will even survive to see its conclusion.
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Angela Rippon is the celebrity ambassador for Care UK’s campaign “the Big Dementia Conversation”.
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Neil Eastwood is looking to tackle the care sector’s workforce crisis. Not only does his app offer a novel solution, but his experience as a former carer and care group director gives him a fascinating perspective on where employers are going wrong.
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Swanton Care and Community has acquired Alina Disability Support which provides care and support for children and adults with learning disabilities.
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Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired land and agreed forward-funding to support the development of three new purpose-built care homes.
Real estate
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Oakland Care’s purchase of a 70-bed care home development site last month highlights key trends in the elderly care market.
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PE firm Lonsdale has launched two build-and-buy platforms in homecare and dentistry. HealthInvestor speaks to an advisor on the homecare deal to find out more.
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GenesisCare UK has secured access to up to £140 million, provided by Pemberton Asset Management, a private credit manager in Europe, and Barclays.
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Spire Healthcare’s £13.5 million Harrogate Clinic has opened offering a range of day surgery treatments.
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Senior Living Investment Partners, a partnership between Pension Insurance Corporation and Octopus Real Estate, has announced an investment via its joint venture with Elysian Residences.
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Strong Life Care has purchased two purpose-built care homes: The Beeches in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire and Tenlands in Ferryhill, County Durham.
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Integrated retirement community operator Wallacea Living has appointed Nazish Shaikh into the newly-created role head of HR.
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Occupancy levels across UK private care homes returned to, and in some cases exceeded, the pre-pandemic long-term average to reach 88%.
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Spire Healthcare has opened Spire Ella May Barnes Clinic in Norwich which provides outpatient services.
Clinical services
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Elizabeth Finn Homes, which operates eight care homes across England, has appointed Ruth French and Julian Ide as non-executive directors.
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Private equity firm Kester Capital has acquired Hitchin, Hertfordshire-based EMAS Pharma, the clinical development division of Bionical Emas.
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Hamberley Care Homes has signed a 30-year lease deal with Belgian healthcare real estate investment trust Aedifica’s UK division for a new luxury care home site.
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Wanda Health, a platform for remote patient monitoring (RPM) and virtual care, has closed a £1 million equity investment round led by EMV Capital Partners
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More details have emerged about the upcoming Optegra deal. The process is expected to conclude within two months.
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Narayana Health has reportedly denied rumours it is planning to buy UK hospital group Spire. Were a sale to happen, HealthInvestor understands the group’s ownership structure could make it complicated.
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A review of more than 100 integrated retirement community schemes has revealed continuing shifts in operator strategies,
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HealthInvestor understands ophthalmic success story Optegra is up for sale, with an advisor appointed to take the firm to market next year.
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Electiva Healthcare has acquired Clinica Medica, which provides private GP services, day case surgery, medical-grade aesthetic treatments and pharmacy services.
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Bupa Health Services has acquired The Dermatology Partnership, seven dermatology clinics.
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OakNorth Bank has provided funds to MPS Care Group, a provider of residential nursing and care homes for adults.
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Care home provider Oakland Care has purchased a 70-bedroom care home development site in Fleet, Hampshire.
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Property developer Zephyr X has acquired a site for a new senior living development in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
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A comprehensive survey from the Care Provider Alliance (CPA) displays the devastating impact the budget will have on care and support providers.
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In an exclusive chat with HealthInvestor, Nuffield Health has confirmed it is appointing two new chief operating officers, one for the hospital side of the business and another for their fitness and wellbeing centres. A spokesperson denies the group will split, despite rumours to the contrary.
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Cambridge-based healthtech start-up PocDoc has raised £5 million in pre-A funding from MMC Ventures, Molten VC, Simplyhealth Ventures and KHP Ventures.
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Forbes Stuart, partner at Ignite Growth, which acquired supported living business Acorns Healthcare, talks bout Ignite’s regional growth strategy, his thoughts on UK political risk and more.
Interview
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Property group Eddisons has appointed Kate Deakin as a director in its valuation team based in the company’s Manchester office.
Real estate
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Huge wage bills in the wake of changes to employers’ national insurance contributions could cripple some healthcare operators, market experts tell HealthInvestor.
Politics & policy
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Leamington Spa-based healthcare data company Egress Group has appointed Kieran Hughes as chief executive.
Technology