HM Special Reports

HMn talks to Dominic Dalli, partner at private equity firm Sovereign Capital, who about how private equity can work with the health care sector to improve services

Healthcare is often the sector of choice for women but although well represented in nursing and medical roles, they remain a rare sight in...

The tumbling oil price may have stemmed the flow of international patients making their way to London for treatment, but the latest research shows...

Lisa de Sousa explores the benefits of on-demand ultrasound

Getting positive messages about independent healthcare into the public arena involves a delicate balance between celebrating the sector’s successes and not appearing to criticise...

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (the Act) introduced major changes to the way health and social care services in England are funded, commissioned and administered. These changes included the way NHS services will be regulated through the creation of a provider licence which will impose a range of obligations on providers of NHS services (the Licence). The Licence regime for non-exempt NHS funded services will be overseen by Monitor.

Think about the London international patient market and The Cromwell Hospital is probably the first name that springs to mind. Maria Davies talks to...

Suhail Mirza talks to Allan Johnson, CEO of the Practice Group, about how his experience in the armed forces and industry has influenced his...

A judicial review brought by an anti-privatisation campaign group is questioning the payment mechanisms of ACO contracts For those organisations working in the NHS, in...

The past two years has seen a series of overseas investments in UK private healthcare companies. Last year the US hospital management firm Universal Health Services acquired Cygnet Health Care for approximately £205m and Acadia Healthcare, an American psychiatric provider, acquired Partnerships in Care (PiC) from its private equity owners Cinven for approximately $660m (£393m). In 2015, the Dallas- based Tenet Healthcare Corporation bought private hospital group Aspen Healthcare from Welsh Carson for $215m (£142m) as part of a deal that will see it form the largest provider of ambulatory services in the US. This was followed by the acquisition of Aspen’s property portfolio by US property investor Health Care REIT for £226m. This June, the South African hospital group Mediclinic acquired a 29.9% stake in Spire Healthcare for £432m while July saw GenesisCare, Austrlia’s largest provider of radiotherapy services, buy CancerPartners UK for an undisclosed sum.