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Shifting tides

Author: April Lara

Private healthcare is riding a wave of fresh investment, from multimillion-euro cancer centres to rapid buy-ups of medical sites.

Limited HIQA power raises questions over private nursing home fees

Author: Ireland-Live

HIQA has clarified its limited authority over extra charges imposed on residents at The Residence Portlaoise, a private nursing home under scrutiny for billing families for essentials like medication, dressings, physiotherapy, and incontinence wear.

Mater Private raises the bar in cancer care

Author: Business Plus

Mater Private Network has become the first in Ireland to introduce TrueBeam LINACs with HyperSight, investing €5.6 million to deliver sharper imaging and faster radiotherapy treatments.

Private investors snap up medical centres in Ireland

Author: Irish Independent

Private Irish investors have acquired four medical centres from France’s MNK Partners for €4.75 million, delivering a 36 percent return for the seller.

Affidea steps in as Ulster Rugby’s new stadium sponsor

Author: Belfast Telegraph

Ulster Rugby has secured a landmark naming rights deal with leading European health diagnostics provider Affidea Group, replacing Kingspan as stadium sponsor.

Labour pushes for urgent shake-up in eldercare sector

Author: Labour.ie

Labour is calling for immediate State intervention and sweeping reforms in Ireland’s nursing home sector following shocking RTÉ revelations about poor care standards in Emeis facilities.

Belgian REIT backs €26.5m cancer centre in Limerick

Author: Investors in Healthcare

Aedifica is investing €26.5 million to build a state-of-the-art cancer centre in Limerick under a 30-year triple net lease indexed to CPI, delivering an initial net rental yield of 7%.

Uneven gains

Author: April Lara

The private healthcare sector has a choice: continue driving technical breakthroughs or tackle the systemic fractures that keep gains uneven.

Funding boost fails to drive performance at St Vincent’s

Author: Irish Independent

St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin has come under scrutiny after Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill revealed its patient output barely improved despite a 36% rise in staff and a 42% funding boost over five years.

Belfast transitional care unit could ease hospital bed crisis

Author: MSN

Healthcare entrepreneur Dr Peter Keeling is spearheading a bold solution to Northern Ireland’s chronic hospital bed shortage.

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