Long waiting times for elective surgery have been a problem across much of Western Europe for years, but Covid has unequivocally compounded this, opening the door to outsourcing to for-profits to get waiting times down.
This week HBI looks at the volumes of property deals at Europe's three biggest healthcare REITs by the number of sites purchased. More residential care providers are selling off properties than the year before the pandemic hit.
This week HBI looks at when e-prescriptions became mandatory across most of Europe's big healthcare markets. Surprisingly, France and Germany look to be years behind other 'less developed' healthcare systems.
Adult social care, a major sector in the UK and Nordics in particular, has traditionally been dominated by the not-for-profit sector in Europe. In this week's infographic, we look at the for-profit, not-for-profit/public split across select countries in Europe.
This week the OECD has released new data on healthcare expenditures for 2019 across several major economies. It shows some interesting nuggets, like how the Chinese spend more out-of-pocket than the entirety of France spends on healthcare and that Hungary has one of the lowest healthcare spendings in the world.
In this week’s infographic we take a closer look at the lab market stocks, mapping the percentage change from March 2020 to date for six of the largest players in the sector globally - Medicover, Sonic Healthcare, Synlab, Dian Diagnostics, Diagnosticos da America (DASA), and Grupo Fleury. What does it show?
Covid testing is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. This is the clear message from the stockmarket, as the infographic below which was presented at HBI 2021 by Hedley Goldberg, managing director at Rothschild & Co, illustrates.
Demand for mental health support is set to increase alarmingly over the next five years. The attached infographic formed part of a presentation by Hedley Goldberg, managing director at Rothschild & Co, at HBI 2021. It paints a worrying picture.
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