Introduction

Changes in the European health care landscape have created new opportunities for investors and operators alike. Aging populations and falling behind service levels has caused a shake up in how heath care is paid for and how it is provided.

In nursing homes, for example, shifts in the supply/demand balance in favour of operators have resulted in price increases which have restored profitability to the sector. However, profitably operating a large care home business is often harder to achieve than a small chain, creating challenges for operators and investors to create value at scale from this demand.

In acute and chronic health care, commissioning changes by the National Health Service both centrally through Independent Sector Treatment Centres and locally through Primary Care Trusts have caused independent care operators to rethink their business models. Private hospital groups are moving towards trading margin for volume to survive and are dealing with all the pains of reconfiguring their infrastructure and business models to suit.

Medical devices and biopharmaceutical companies are inundated with new basic technological innovations which can power a host of new and exciting products, however, how these products will be paid for is the bottleneck each of these companies face.

Candesic helps its clients navigate this uncertain landscape using our deep industry expertise validated by robust, fact based, problem solving and analysis. Our deep topical experts, who have many years’ experience in the industry, assist our full time teams in giving advice that is grounded in reality and rigorous in process.

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