The top five players in the hospital, lab and nursing home markets in Europe and the Middle East have consolidated between 2-4% of their markets since 2018.
There were more transactions at the top-end of the market in Europe's healthcare sector in June and July than in the same period in 2019 and 2020 combined. Dealmakers have now made more than a dent in the backlog of Covid-postponed processes. Traditionally June-July is a quiet time for M&A in healthcare services. 2021 appears to be the exception.
The GCC's private hospital sector had a highly volatile second half of the 2010s despite being the target of huge foreign investments in the first. Public data shows huge fluctuations in annual growth in 2014-2019 across Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Dubai, UAE.
The first six months of 2021 were a bumper year for Europe's digital health startups as they raised more money than ever before. This week's infographic gives a sneak peek at HBI's special report on how to value a digital health company. You can read the whole thing by subscribing to HBI Deals+Insights.
A lot of discussion has taken place about the conduct of nursing homes in the pandemic. Today we look at the number of excess deaths among the over 65s in a population in 2020, and compare it to the loss in occupancy that operators suffered through that year.
A lot of CEOs took huge pay cuts through the last financial year, others made bank. HBI explores CEO pay in a year when revenue expectations went out of the window, staff were furloughed and governments had to prop up businesses across EMEA.
Hospital admissions for A&E patients have not yet returned to their pre-Covid levels in Western Europe, despite significant increases in attendance since January this year.
Healthcare in Europe is a corruption hotspot: six percent of people have paid bribes to get medical care and a third relied on personal connections. That's according to a new report by Transparency International.
The Nordics and the UK lead the way in shifting hospital care to outpatient and day case treatments while DACH and CEE have a lot of catching up to do. This week's infographic is a redacted version of a larger analysis piece available to subscribers.
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