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...The increase in cancer treatment, which is also more complex and profitable, is attributed to the slow pace of approvals from the UK’s The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for NHS patients...
...While this was higher than expectations of 0.4 per cent, it was down from a 0.6 per cent pace in April and well short of the Bank of Japan’s inflation target of 2 per cent....
...“As regulator, we need to keep pace with a sector that is becoming more complex and diverse,” he said....
...Aside from rare success stories – such as HCA, the US hospital operator taken private by KKR, Bain and Merrill Lynch for $31bn, which floated earlier this year or KKR’s Dollar General – private equity groups...
...Anyone wanting to check the health of the private equity industry could do worse than look at HCA Holdings....
...HCA, for example, the largest hospital group by revenues, boasts industry-leading margins, helped in part by high local market share in places such as Denver, Richmond and El Paso, they added....
...HCA, the US hospitals group bought for $33bn by a private equity consortium of Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Merrill Lynch, last week issued $1.25bn of bonds to replace bank debt due in 2013...
...Other means of supporting supply in the short term could include the HCA seeking to acquire some land with planning permission from developers....
...The pace of global takeovers is about 60 per cent below its $3,200bn peak of 2007 and few bankers are predicting a quick upsurge in volumes....
...Yet investor demand has more than kept pace with supply....
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