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Investors’ growing interest in health care real estate in 2023

Property consultancy Knight Frank's 2023 Wealth Report shows investors are increasingly interested in health care real estate. Its attitude survey canvassed the opinions of 500 internationally-based private bankers, wealth advisors, intermediaries and family offices, which between them manage over $2.5 trillion.

Covid put mental health in the spotlight – for a while

In this week's infographic we look at survey data collected by digital health company Headspace for its 2022 Workforce Attitudes report. According to the data, a majority (71%) of UK employees think their company increased its focus on employee mental health in response to Covid, but only a quarter think their company has retained this focus over the past year.

Which countries can claim to have universal health coverage?

In this week's infographic we look at OECD data on health coverage across several countries and compare it to survey data on the percentage of people satisfied with the availability of quality health care in the area where they live.

Covid led to massive boost in social spending

The OECD has released new data on social spending across OECD countries, going right up to 2022. All OECD countries saw a massive increase in social spending as a result of the Covid pandemic, with social expenditure rising from around 20% to around 23% of GDP on average between 2019 and 2020.

Over a third of 2022 health care M&A deals were in services

M&A advisory firm Ciesco has published a review of global M&A activity in 2022 across the technology, digital, media and health care sectors. In this week's infographics we look at the split across health care sub sectors by deal volume and value.

Outlook on healthcare quality less positive in 2022

This week we looked at perceived healthcare quality across selected markets in 2022, according to research conducted by market research company IPSOS. Overall, there is less positivity about healthcare quality compared to 2021.

What’s behind Europe’s variation in excess death rates in 2022?

In this week's infographics we look at monthly excess death rates across EU countries (plus Switzerland) throughout 2022. Surprisingly, the huge variation in excess death rates between countries is not explained by variations in the number of physicians or nurses per capita, nor in variations in health expenditure per capita, nor in variations in the proportion of private expenditure between countries.

Female majority lead in dentistry

Data from the NHS shows the number of male dentists has been declining whilst female dentists have been on the rise.

Germany’s generous long-term care expenditure outpaced by demand

Two recent datasets, one from German national statistics office Destatis, and the other from Eurostat, the EU statistics provider, shows Germany outpacing the EU on long-term care provision.

How optimistic are US insurers and operators about 2023?

Accounting and Consultancy firm Deloitte US' industry outlook survey of health care operators and investors reveals what 71 c-suite executives of  health systems and insurance with $500m+ revenue think 2023 will hold.

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