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For-profit nursing home consolidation

This week, we look at the extent to which the for-profit elderly nursing home market is consolidated in five major European countries – France, Germany, UK, Spain and Italy. These figures are a snapshot of the position based on revenues in 2020 taken from HBI Intelligence.

Long-term care worker numbers in the formal sector

This week, we look at figures for selected countries for long term care workers in the formal sector using OECD figures.

India’s Unicorns and Soonicorns

India’s health startups have attracted crazy levels of investment, creating five unicorns in a year, with more to follow. HBI takes a closer look.

Brazil, the only way is vertical!

Payor/provider vertical integration is the most successful strategy in Brazil according to our experts. 2022 February finally saw the merger of the two Brazilian giants of vertical integration, Grupo Notredame Intermédica (GNDI) is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Hapvida. Together they became the second largest health care company in the southern hemisphere and currently have a market cap of US$17.2bn and approximately 17% of the Healthcare Plan insurance market, according to experts.

Assistant numbers may be key to nursing quality

Quality of care is directly affected by the skills and qualifications of the nurse workforce, according to academic studies. So it is interesting to look at the proportion of the nurse workforce which consists of qualified nurses, as opposed to healthcare assistants. There are some very big differences between countries.

For-profit lab consolidation across Europe’s biggest markets

Germany, France and Italy are Europe's largest for-profit laboratory services markets, with heavyweight groups like Sonic, Synlab, and Cerba having significant market shares. As the major players continue to make large and bolt-on acquisitions, just how consolidated are these markets.

For-profit fertility sector growing strongly

The European fertility sector has been growing strongly, at around 5% per annum, and in some places even more strongly than this. The strong growth in the sector is driven by increasing demand, which is driven by a decline in fertility and the increasing social acceptability of IVF treatment. The data in this infographic is […]

Hospital consolidation in France, Germany and Europe

This week, we look at the extent to which the for-profit hospital market is consolidated in three key countries - France, Germany and the UK. These figures are a snapshot of the position based on revenues in 2020.

Nurse migration over time

This week we take a look at nurse migration, with an infographic that shows the number of active foreign-trained nurses in a variety of European countries in both 2009, and 2019.

Country comparison: Nurses per 1,000 population

A lack of nursing staff is often the key complaint HBI hears across multiple sectors, with staffing one of the issues keeping our operator readership awake at night.

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