Norfolk-headquartered veterinary services company CVS Group has acquired Market Cross Veterinary Clinic in Dalkeith.

Agilio Software, a provider of dental and primary care software, has acquired InterShift, a Dutch provider of scheduling software for GPs.

Private equity investor Palatine has completed the sale of Veincentre, a UK-based clinic chain specialising in the treatment of varicose veins.

Swanton Care and Community has acquired Deanston House, which specialises in nursing care and support for adults with learning disabilities.

Dentex has purchased Alex Jones Dentistry, two private dental practices, in Barnsley and Penistone, South Yorkshire.

The Competition and Markets Authority has accepted undertakings offered to address concerns raised over the acquisition of Dental Partners Group by Riviera Bidco, the owners of Rodericks Dental.

Scottish dental group Clyde Munro has acquired Tryst Dental in Stenhousemuir.

Dedicare has acquired recruitment and staffing company Templars Medical Agency, which recruits and provides doctors for customers in the UK and Ireland.

OneTouch has secured an investment from mid-market private equity firm August Equity.

Dentex Group has acquired Dawood & Tanner, a London dental practice with14 surgeries, an operating room and two consulting rooms.

HCRG Care Group has acquired CRG Medical adding additional prison and police custody-focused health and care services to its stable of community health and care services.

As exclusively revealed by HealthInvestor in January, Alantra ran the sale.

Uniphar has acquired pharmacy business McCauley Pharmacy Group, adding 37 retail pharmacies to the group.

Home care services provider Optimo Care Group has bought Safehands Support Services, a domiciliary care provider based in Oldham.

Elysium Healthcare has acquired Regis Healthcare, which operates a 21-bed low secure hospital in Ebbw Vale, South Wales.

HealthInvestor speaks to Sophie Ehrlich, director of healthtech at SVB UK, following the release of SVB’s Healthcare Investments and Exits Report to find out more.

Accomplish Group has acquired Recovery Care, which provides specialist supported living services to vulnerable adults with complex mental ill-health, learning disability or substance misuse.

The sale of Nurseplus has started with information memoranda (IM) being distributed to prospective bidders, HealthInvestor can reveal.

Lottie has acquired care home occupancy and customer relationship software company Found for £1.5 million.

DCC Healthcare is acquiring Rohrdorf, Germany-headquartered Medi-Globe Technologies, an international medical devices business focused on minimally invasive procedures.

City & County Healthcare Group, the UK’s largest provider of home care, has acquired Guinness Care’s home care division.

London-based ClearCourse, a group of technology brands providing software solutions and an integrated payments platform, has acquired Blue Zinc.

Investor Enact has acquired PAL International, which provides hygiene solutions and infection control for the healthcare, food manufacturing and industrial markets.

lasgow-based Clyde Munro Dental Group has struck a deal with married dentists, Duncan Sandland and Suzanne Seaton, to acquire their Colinton Dental and Riccarton Dental practices in Edinburgh.

The consortium led by private equity firm KKR & Co has withdrawn its near $15 billion all-cash buyout offer for global Australia-based hospital operator Ramsay Health Care.

Dental groups Portman Dental Care and Dentex are to merge forming the largest privately focused dental group in the UK and one of Europe’s largest.

Home care services provider Optimo Care Group has bought Mayday Homecare, HealthInvestor can reveal.

Private infrastructure investment manager DWS Infrastructure has acquired medical equipment and managed services provider Althea UK.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has flagged concerns over the merger of Rodericks and Dental Partners.

Impact Healthcare REIT is acquiring two care homes in Kent for £14 million.

Portman Dental Care has purchased Sharoe Green Dental Practice in Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.

Communications agency PLMR Group has acquired specialist health and social care agency Healthcomms Consulting.

German private equity firm Aurelius has sold Transform Hospital Group (THG), a UK surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures operator.

VetPartners has acquired Westgate Veterinary Hospital in Drogheda, which looks after small and large animals in County Louth and County Meath.

This week HealthInvestor speaks to AlbionVC to find out more about the key trends in early stage healthtech investment.

Scottish Dental Care which owns 15 practices across Scotland, has acquired dental group Mathewson Dental Practice.

HCML, a provider of rehabilitation and care management services, has acquired healthcare rm, an employee health risk management company.

Anchor, a not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, is acquiring Halcyon Care Homes Topco.

FutureLife, a pan-European provider of IVF and related genetics services, backed by CVC Capital Partners and Hartenberg Holding, has acquired The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health.

Dental investment group Riverdale Healthcare has acquired Hanji Dental Group, a mixed income dental business with a total of 88 surgeries.

My Choice Health Care has purchased two Swansea care homes, Hawthorn Court Residential Home and Ocean Living.

Primary Health Properties, a real estate investment trust that invests in modern primary healthcare facilities, has acquired the Strawberry Hill Medical Centre, in Newbury, Berkshire for £7.25 million.

The dismantling of Four Seasons Health Care Group has passed another milestone with the sale of 29 care homes in Northern Ireland.

Dental group Dentex has acquired Ceramiart Dental Laboratories in Marylebone, Central London, which specialises in all types of ceramic restorations.

Dental group Envisage Dental has acquired Shipston Dental Practice in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.

Co-ownership model dental business Dentex has acquired Shawlands Dental Care, a Scottish dental care operator for an undisclosed sum.

Limerston Capital’s portfolio company Trinity Homecare Holdings has acquired Bristol-based Premier Homecare which provides domiciliary and live-in care services in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and neighbouring regions.

Amalgamated Laboratory Solutions, a London-based business backed by Ansor Private Equity has acquired Precedental, a Stourbridge-based dental laboratory company.

Octopus Real Estate today announced the start of a long-term strategic partnership with Anavo Group to fund the development and operation of high-quality elderly care homes across the UK.

One Hatfield Hospital, operated by One Healthcare and owned by Octopus Group, is currently on the market, HealthInvestor hears from two well-placed sources.

Following an in-depth review of over 200 applications, investor at Spex Capital Filippo Falaschi, shares the team’s key learning’s on today’s health-tech start-up market along with predictions on what’s to come.

London-based alternative asset manager Gresham House has acquired New Century Care, a care home provider for the elderly, for $21 million.

Private equity firm Inflexion Private Equity Partners has led the buyout of SteriPack, a contract manufacturer serving the medical device, pharmaceutical and diagnostic markets.

Bristol-based care group Cedar Care has acquired Hill House Care Home near Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

Grimethorpe, Barnsley-based Countrywide Healthcare, which provides specialist service and products to care homes across the UK, has acquired B&M Supplies based in Southport.

The Pet Vet has been allowed to acquire Quality Pet Care comprising eight The Vet branded surgeries.

The healthcare acquisitions across Europe and beyond that made the headlines in June

Administrators of care home operator Four Seasons Health Care have appointed specialist business property advisor Christie & Co to handle the sale of 111 freehold care homes.

Welford Healthcare, supported by real estate investment trust Impact Healthcare REIT, has acquired Eastleigh Care Group, a group of three care homes in Devon and Somerset.

BC Partners today announced it has entered into exclusive discussions to acquire a majority stake in Havea, the French natural healthcare company, from 3i Group.

Private equity firm Astorg has acquired a majority stake in Avania, a Netherlands-based global clinical contract research organisation dedicated to medical technology, from primary buyout firm Kester Capital.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £760,000 loan to Nightingale Healthcare Group to acquire Care Unique, an independent care agency providing a service for people needing care and support in their own home, including childcare.

As exclusively revealed by HealthInvestor in February, specialist residential and supported living provider to adults Accomplish Group is merging with Keys Group, a provider of specialist education and care for children and young people.

Dr Ilian Iliev, talks to Zina Fragkiadaki about why investing in healthcare and life sciences is beneficial, and the potential value that investors can gain by looking at this critical sector.

Health services firm Optum UK is acquiring Leeds-based healthtech company EMIS Group for about £1.24 billion in cash.

Belgian-headquartered healthcare real estate investment trust Aedifica has acquired Creggan Bahn Court, a fully operational care home in Ayr in Scotland.

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investment fund Mubadala Investment Company and private equity firm CapVest are rumoured to be among those in the run to acquire Dentex, the UK-based private dental partnership network, as the second-round bid kicks off, two sources have told this publication.

Mid-market private equity firm Livingbridge is working with financial advisory PwC to explore a sale of Helping Hands, a British domiciliary care provider, HealthInvestor hears from credible market sources.

HealthInvestor caught up with Antoine Mazerolle, executive director of healthcare business & tech-enabled services at DC Advisory, to discuss consolidation in dentistry, what investors have been looking at and what valuations look like.

London-based private equity investor Perwyn is acquiring European Sperm Bank from Danish private equity investment company Axcel.

The Hub Pharmacy has been sold to Allcures for a double-digit eight-figure amount, HealthInvestor hears from a source familiar with the situation.

Sandstone Care Group has taken operational ownership of The Farmstead Care Home in Telford, Shropshire, its seventh care home.

London-based Future Health Works, a healthtech firm and owner of patient engagement platforms myrecovery and msk.ai, has been acquired by Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company, a US player in MSK physician practice management, outcomes management and value-based care solutions.

May was another busy month for M&A in the healthcare sector. Companies based in the Nordics have done the most acquiring, accounting for more than half of the deals announced.

Apposite Capital-backed dental group Riverdale Healthcare has acquired Prettygate Dental in Colchester, Essex for an undisclosed sum. This latest acquisition takes Riverdale to 40 practices plus a dental laboratory.

Impact Healthcare REIT is acquiring three properties for £25 million plus transaction costs. The properties are let to care home provider Welford Healthcare, an existing tenant in the portfolio.

Around five interested parties are through to the second round of the auction of Palatine-backed Veincentre, a UK-based clinic chain specialising in the treatment of varicose veins, HealthInvestor UK can exclusively reveal.

The huge pressure on national health systems to improve health outcomes and bring down costs is driving high levels of innovation within digital health, Romain Ellul, managing director of healthcare at Bryan Garnier & Co, explains.

Through this acquisition, Apricity aims at four key areas of acceleration including improved lead generation, geographical expansion beyond France and the UK, increased user engagement, and AI optimisation.

The Sheikh Holdings Group consortium and Dbay Advisors have been given four more weeks to make an offer for the London-listed social care and education services provider CareTech Holdings.

Scottish care home group Renaissance Care has secured £30 million additional acquisition funding with an unnamed backer as it plans to double in size over the next three years.

Private equity firm KKR is considering dual options to fund its offer for the global, Australia-based hospital operator Ramsay Health Care, according to a newswire report.

Issa Brothers and TDR Capital, a consortium backed by the billionaire Issa brothers are considering dropping out of the bidding for the Walgreens Boots Alliance’s pharmacy and retailer Boots, according to Bloomberg.

Liquidity in the private care market is giving options that did not exist in the past, speakers in a Freeths webinar unanimously agreed.

Sanders Senior Living, a senior living provider and sister company to Runwood Homes, has acquired a 60-bedroom care home development in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Private equity firm PEAL Capital Group has acquired the London-based cosmetic training provider Derma Med for an undisclosed amount.

Palamon Capital Partners and IDH Group have entered into a binding agreement to sell DD Group, the UK and Irish dental and medical aesthetics distributor and service provider, to an affiliate of Sun European Partners.

Health and care technology company Tunstall Healthcare has acquired alarm monitoring services provider Oy Verifi in Finland.

A bid battle to buy pharmacy and retailer Boots is developing, with three potential buyers requested more information on recent trading, The Times has reported.

Real estate investment firm Rynda Healthcare has bought two care home developments from Reuben Brothers-owned care home provider Avery Healthcare in a sale and leaseback deal of more than £28 million, HealthInvestor UK can reveal.

Health technology provider Agilio Software has acquired flexible working platform My Locum Manager (MLM), adding it to its primary care division.

One year on from its launch in Europe, the London-headquartered later living developer Guild Living is in talks to acquire three sites in Italy, one in Spain, and one in Portugal in 2022, its co-founder and director Eugene Marchese tells HealthInvestor UK.

Vita Health Group has acquired musculoskeletal service provider Pennine MSK Partnership.

London-based digital health company Physitrack has acquired Sheffield-headquartered Champion Health, a workplace health platform.

Preventx is set to expand its STI testing services into Spain, with further plan in place to enter the markets in Belgium and Germany, HealthInvestor UK can reveal.

Norfolk-headquartered veterinary services company CVS Group has acquires Andover, Hampshire-based veterinary practice Anton Vets for £6 million.

Chicago-based RLDatix,has acquired West London-headquartered Quality Compliance Systems, which provides software-as-a-service compliance software for the social care and primary care sectors.

Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired Todays Dental Group, a London-based dental company comprising eight dental practices.

Real estate lender and investor Octopus Real Estate has acquired six assets from Patron Capital-backed care home developer and operator Hamberley Group for £100 million.

HealthInvestor UK’s look at healthcare investment activity across Europe