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LDC-backed Agentis expands healthcare arm with CPS acquisition
Agentis Health Group has acquired Clinical Pharmacist Solutions, adding outsourced pharmacy and clinical support capability to its healthcare division. The deal positions the LDC-backed group to capture demand created by the NHS shift toward community-based, technology-enabled care.
Bupa Dental Care rolls out drill free decay treatment
Bupa Dental Care has partnered with vVARDIS to introduce Curodont Repair, a drill-free treatment for early tooth decay, across its UK practices. The move targets dental anxiety and aims to close the gap between prevention and invasive restorative treatment.
Blackrock Health opens specialist breast programme in Dublin
Blackrock Health has opened a Specialist Breast Programme at its Women's Health Centre, offering a full breast care pathway from referral through to treatment and follow-up. The service brings assessment, diagnostics and multidisciplinary treatment planning together in one model of care.
Mater Private appoints cardiologist to lead Cork cath lab
Mater Private Network has appointed interventional cardiologist Dr Simon Walsh to lead the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory at Mater Private Cork. The appointment expands access to complex coronary intervention for patients across Munster.
Caroline Byrne joins Private Healthcare Awards 2026 judging panel
Caroline Byrne, Managing Director of Medica Ireland, joins the judging panel for the Private Healthcare Awards 2026, bringing over 20 years of experience across frontline healthcare operations and senior executive leadership in diagnostic, obstetric, and teleradiology services. A champion of patient access, quality improvement, and healthcare innovation, Byrne contributes a practitioner's understanding of the challenges facing healthcare providers in delivering high-quality diagnostic care across Ireland's private healthcare sector.
Ireland’s GLP-1 Obesity Treatment Market Is Expanding Rapidly and Licensed Private Healthcare Providers Are Best Placed to Lead It
HPRA data published in 2026 confirms that illegal GLP-1 product seizures surged 30-fold in 2025, confirming mass patient demand for weight management medicines in Ireland. Licensed private healthcare providers who build structured, clinician-led obesity medicine programmes will capture a commercially significant and clinically important market.
Toscafund extends Spire deadline for a fifth time as financing remains the only outstanding condition
Spire Healthcare has extended Toscafund's deadline to 3 September, the fifth extension since May. Due diligence has now concluded, financing alone is keeping the £1 billion deal from formalising, and five extensions signal that assembling institutional co-investment for a hedge fund acquisition is harder than expected.
The Real Clinic rebrands as Battersea Hospital as self-pay growth demands a credible institutional identity
The Real Clinic has rebranded as Battersea Hospital. Self-pay is the hospital's fastest-growing segment, and a name originally conceived for an aesthetics proposition no longer reflects a multi-specialty elective care hospital treating NHS, insurer and self-funding patients simultaneously.
Re:Cognition Health opens Dublin clinic to replace cross-border patient travel with domestic disease-modifying Alzheimer's treatment
Re:Cognition Health has opened Ireland's first dedicated independent Alzheimer's disease-modifying treatment clinic in Dublin. Irish patients have been travelling to UK clinics to access lecanemab and donanemab, the Dublin clinic converts that cross-border flow into domestic care.
Vhi becomes Guaranteed Irish's Health and Wellbeing Partner to reach 2,500 member businesses outside its direct corporate channel
Vhi Healthcare has been named official Health and Wellbeing Partner of Guaranteed Irish. For small Irish businesses that cannot individually negotiate Vhi corporate wellness arrangements, the partnership provides structured access to health programming and Mental Health First Aid training at scale.
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