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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.
January 27, 2023

Al Borg eying franchising and reference markets

Big Saudi lab group Al Borg plans to use franchising to grow rapidly with a consumer-led offer which includes imaging and primary care. It is also constructing two enormous reference labs in Riyad and Jeddah with the aim of seizing a market where Saudi spends billions.  The group is also still eyeing a stock market listing.
January 20, 2023

Healthcare spending is expected to be resilient

Using data from Jefferies US and European Research, this week's infographic asks to what extent consumers across five major economies (USA, Italy, Germany, UK, France and Italy) see healthcare spend as a significant area for spending cuts.
November 25, 2022

The current state of interest and inflation rates

The current macroeconomic environment is slowing down health care services M&A, as inflation eats into margins and debt financing dries up. In this week's infographic we look at the state of interest rates and inflation rates in major economies across the world.
November 18, 2022

The UK care home sector

Following our brand new intelligence report on the UK elderly care sector, we look at the size of the for-profit and public/non-profit sectors.
November 4, 2022

Top 10 EMEA labs groups made almost €8bn extra revenue in 2021

It's no secret that the diagnostic labs sector benefitted immensely from testing during the Covid pandemic. But now that 2021 revenue figures are available for many of the largest groups, it is clear that the scale of the testing windfall has been larger than anyone in the sector imagined.
October 28, 2022

Germany only big 5 country to spend more on outpatient than hospitals

Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is planning to shift as much as 25% of care which is currently done on an inpatient basis to outpatient, in the country's biggest health care reform in 20 years. But Germany is already unique amongst the big 5 in that it already spends slightly more on ambulatory care than inpatient care.
October 7, 2022

Ransomware attacks on health care triple

Health care operators are being heavily targeted by ransomware fraudsters. Research from cybersecurity firm Barracuda suggests attacks tripled over the past 12 months, compared to last year. Two thirds of health care organisations were hit by ransomware in 2021 - up from a third in 2020 - according to a survey covering 31 countries, by software security firm Sophos which released its annual report on ransomware in June.
August 26, 2022
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