UK Healthcare Market Review 36th Edition
Stay ahead in UK healthcare and social care
Gain comprehensive, data-driven analysis of key markets in the independent healthcare and social care sectors.
This report provides essential insights to support your strategic decisions for 2025, covering market value, key trends, funding sources, private equity activity, and more. Expanding on over 30 years of sector intelligence, it is your definitive guide to navigating the evolving healthcare landscape and making informed decisions in an ever-changing market.
Thirty-sixth edition
UK Healthcare Market Review
Authored by LaingBuisson | Published: 10th February 2025 | pp. 133
The 36th edition of LaingBuisson’s UK Healthcare Market Review offers a comprehensive overview of the latest data available on the key sectors of the UK independent healthcare and social care sectors. Combined, LaingBuisson values the entire health and social care sector at £292.5 billion.
It is an invaluable guide to those looking to stay abreast of key developments across the sector, offering data-led perspectives that will support strategic planning in 2025.
Drawing on LaingBuisson’s deep expertise contained in their health and social care market reports, the UK Healthcare Market Review offers unparalleled insights across the independent health and social care landscape.
The information included in the Review includes current market value and capacity, recent trends, market concentration, leading players, funding sources, and key issues for the future. It also offers detail on key market transactions and insight into the interest and activity of private equity investors.
This year's review includes a summary of the long-awaited Mental Health Hospitals UK Market Report, returning after five years, as well as the Primary Care UK Market Report. It also introduces a new chapter on AI in Private Healthcare: Driving Commercial, Operational, and Clinical Excellence.
The report provides a clear and concise overview of the role of private payers and independent sector providers, alongside the public sector, in the funding and delivery of UK health and care services.
- Executive leadership from right across the independent healthcare and social care environment
- CCG and local authority commissioners
- Directors of Adult Social Services
- Directors of Children’s Services
- NHS Foundation Trusts
- Independent hospitals/hospital groups
- Care home providers/care home provider groups
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Local and national government
- Healthcare and social care trade bodies
- Policy writers
- Think tanks
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LaingBuisson is the chosen provider of independent sector healthcare market data to the UK Government’s Office for National Statistics.
The review synthesises the key findings from LaingBuisson's Market Reports to provide a comprehensive overview of the current landscape, including:
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Private Acute Healthcare UK, valued at £12.4 billion, details everything you need to know about the private acute healthcare market including day surgery and inpatient and outpatient independent hospitals.
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Health Cover UK Data Insights, currently valued at £7.6 billion, offers a robust evaluation of PMI, Health Cash Plans, and Dental Cover across the UK.
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Private Healthcare Self-Pay UK contains pricing data analysis up to May 2024, this report is essential for stakeholders across the private healthcare sector.
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Primary Care UK contains a comprehensive analysis of public and private markets, plus original research on GP Federations and funding sources for private GP consultations, this report empowers informed decision-making in a rapidly changing landscape currently valued at £29 billion.
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Mental Health Hospitals UK is a market valued at £2.35 billion, across the independent mental health hospital provider sector, this report provides a comprehensive view of policy, legislative and regulatory change over the last five years, as well as a detailed picture of the M&A landscape and strategic developments in the sector.
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AI in Healthcare offers the most comprehensive view yet of how AI can be integrated across every element of a healthcare business to realise commercial gains, deliver operational efficiencies, and drive excellence in clinical care.
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Care Homes for Older People provides a data-driven view of the shifting landscape for care home operators and those looking to invest in the market and paints a picture of a sector where care home fees are rising rapidly, in both the public-pay and private-pay markets.
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Homecare & Supported Living details a market now valued at £12.4 billion, this report offers key insights into market structure, policy, regulation, major providers and investors, reflecting on how homecare and supported services have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic years.
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