UK Healthcare Market Review 37^th Edition

Sponsored by CMS, the 37^th edition of LaingBuisson’s UK Healthcare Market Review provides a comprehensive, data-driven overview of the UK’s key independent healthcare and social care market subsegments including Care Homes for Older People, valued at £26.2 billion, and Private Acute Nationwide, valued at £13.8 billion.   

The Review is a summary publication that highlights LaingBuisson’s extensive portfolio of health and social care market reports that were published in 2025, distilling a year of sector-specific research into a single, authoritative publication. Each market chapter analyses market value and concentration, funding sources, provider landscape, and transaction activity, alongside insights into private equity and investor behaviour. In this edition, each chapter also includes forward-looking projections, enabling readers to benchmark performance, assess risk, and anticipate future change. 

The markets covered in this edition include: 

• Adult Specialist Care 

• Care Cost Benchmarking 

• Care Homes for Older People 

• Children’s Residential Care 

• Dentistry 

• Diagnostics 

• Children’s Foster Care 

• Health Cover 

• Later Living 

• Mental Health Hospitals 

• Private Acute Healthcare 

• Private Healthcare Self Pay 

Market chapters are prefaced by an analysis of Labour’s first 18 months in government and UK healthcare expenditure, placing current market performance within a wider policy and regulatory context.  

This report supports strategic planning and decision-making for: 

• Executive leadership across independent healthcare and social care providers 

• NHS trusts and foundation trusts 

• Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and commissioners 

• Local authorities 

• Directors of Adult Social Services 

• Directors of Children’s Services 

• Independent hospitals and hospital groups 

• Care home operators and provider groups 

• Investors and private equity firms 

• Banks, insurers, and other financial institutions 

• Government and policy makers 

• Legal, advisory, and professional services firms