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AXA Health widens employer support with testing and private prescriptions

Author: Archie Villaflores

AXA Health has expanded its employee support services with new testing, treatment options and private prescriptions delivered through Peppy. The enhancements cover men’s health, women’s health, fertility, pregnancy and early parenthood, and menopause at no additional charge.

Blackrock Health details one-stop breast clinic and 500 million euro expansion

Author: Archie Villaflores

Blackrock Health is opening a specialist breast check clinic at its Dublin Women’s Health Centre, offering a one-stop triple assessment with most results available on the same day. The group is midway through a €500 million investment programme across its Dublin, Galway and Limerick sites.

Mater Private Network expands Limerick radiotherapy with stereotactic programmes

Author: Archie Villaflores

Mater Private Network has introduced stereotactic radiotherapy for brain and spinal tumours in Limerick, alongside advanced prostate cancer treatment, with lung cancer to follow. The programmes are supported by €20 million of investment in radiation oncology and involve Harvard-trained oncologist Professor Daniel Cagney.

Lanas targets New Zealand primary care with indici acquisition

Author: Archie Villaflores

Dublin-headquartered Lanas Healthcare Technology plans to invest NZ$150 million (€75 million) in New Zealand and acquire primary care platform indici. The deal extends the TA Associates-backed group from clinical messaging and pharmacy software into practice management.

Private Healthcare Awards 2026 announces its winners at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry

Author: Archie Villaflores

The Private Healthcare Awards 2026 announced its winners at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry on 2 October 2026, with Belfast Skin Clinic, Gold Standard: Physiotherapy Clinics, Nua Healthcare Services, and Thérapie Fertility among the standout performers across a programme celebrating excellence, innovation, and patient-centred care in Ireland's private healthcare sector. The ceremony reinforced the awards' position as Ireland's most trusted platform for recognising achievement across the full spectrum of private healthcare, setting the standard of clinical excellence, operational leadership, and healthcare innovation that organisations will look to match in the next awards cycle.

Ireland’s Rare Disease Strategy Moves Into Implementation in 2026 and Private Healthcare Providers Should Position Themselves Within It

Author: Archie Villaflores

Ireland’s National Rare Disease Strategy 2025–2030 is moving into implementation in 2026, with €8 million in committed funding, a new education programme for healthcare professionals, and an implementation plan due for publication this year. Private hospitals with specialist clinical capabilities are directly relevant to rare disease care pathways and should engage now.

Regent Street Clinic extends Central London network to six sites

Author: Archie Villaflores

Regent Street Clinic has opened its sixth Central London clinic at St Paul's, less than a year after entering the capital. The independent group now operates 20 clinics across the UK as demand grows for same-day private GP, travel medicine and diagnostic services.

Reset Health and Pharmacy2U form integrated cardiometabolic care provider

Author: Archie Villaflores

Reset Health and Pharmacy2U have created Averly Health, a UK joint venture combining clinical care, prescribing, dispensing and fulfilment in one cardiometabolic service. The company targets obesity and related chronic conditions, including patients prescribed GLP-1 medication.

Primary Health Properties adds 5.8 million pounds through rent reviews

Author: Archie Villaflores

Primary Health Properties has added £5.8 million of income from 480 rent reviews in the first nine months of 2026. Joint venture sales and the completed Assura integration support its plan to reduce debt.

Sims IVF Cork appoints Oxford specialist as medical director

Author: Archie Villaflores

Sims IVF Cork has appointed Professor Enda McVeigh, an Oxford-attached reproductive medicine specialist, as medical director. The appointment brings 30 years of clinical experience to fertility care for patients across Cork and Munster.

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