MSI returns to profit

After recording a post tax loss of £1.7m in its previous reporting period, Medical Services International (MSI), which operates London’s Cromwell Hospital – acquired...

CSG steps closer to sale

A 14 March announcement by Corporate Services Group PLC that it is recommending an offer for the business brings its sale one step nearer.As...

GHG sells two former Nuffield hospitals as OFT investigation progresses

General Healthcare Group (GHG) has sold two of the hospitals it bought from Nuffield in February following an on-going investigation into the acquisition by...

Spire to expand Murrayfield with new £25m facility

Spire Healthcare has announced the development of a 15-bed diagnostic centre and hospital in Edinburgh.The group, which acquired Classic Hospitals in February (HMN March...

BUPA back in hospital market with Cromwell acquisition

BUPA has re-entered the UK private hospital market less than a year after it sold its 25-strong hospital portfolio to Cinven for £1.44bn following...

Ramsay strong at half-year

Australian hospital operator Ramsay Healthcare Limited has released its first set of financial results since acquiring Capio UK last year.The Sydney-listed, St. Leonards New South...

Private equity firms eye Nestor

A host of private equity companies and healthcare providers are reportedly lining up to eye the troubled health and social care business Nestor Healthcare.Despite...

Craegmoor emerging from the tunnel

Amid continued speculation that private equity group Legal and General Ventures (LGV) plans to sell Craegmoor Limited (CCMN March 2008), the specialist healthcare provider...

Lyceum raises new fund for healthcare acquisitions

Private equity firm Lyceum Capital is on the look out to acquire small and medium sized healthcare business after raising £255m of equity capital...

Chilvers & McCrea Ltd bounces into the black

ChilversMcCrea Healthcare, the self-described ‘largest alternative provider of NHS primary care services’, has leapt into profit on the back of strong earnings growth.Turnover for...