Founded by William Laing in 1986, Laing & Buisson is the UK’s foremost and most highly regarded provider of information and market intelligence on the independent health, community care and childcare sectors.
Laing & Buisson offers a uniquely focused range of expert services to providers, purchasers and investors in the health and community care markets. Information about the range of products and services provided by Laing & Buisson is summarised below. For more detailed information about any particular area please refer to the Products and Services menu above.
Consultancy and Market Intelligence
Market intelligence and consultancy work, focusing on non-clinical aspects of health and social care markets, is tailor-made for companies with an active interest in the sector. Examples of recent work include a report on the future of the independent healthcare sector for the Healthcare Commission, the seminal work conducted by Laing & Buisson on ‘A Fair Price for Care’ for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and ‘Improving Lives – Improving Life’, a report on the key strategic issues facing the long term care sector. Laing & Buisson also frequently assists investors in market due diligence work in the health and care sectors.
Annual Directories & Market Reports
Laing & Buisson publishes a series of special market reports and directories on the health and community care sectors. Annual publications include Laing’s Healthcare Market Review, Long Term Care: Directory of Major Providers, and the Care of Elderly People Market Survey. The research and conclusions within the reports are frequently cited in parliamentary questions and answers, official documents and company prospectuses, and are regularly drawn upon by the national media.
Healthcare Data in an Electronic Format
CareSearch is Laing & Buisson’s flagship data product, a ‘one stop shop’ with extremely flexible search facilities for those needing detailed, reliable and up-to-date information on care homes, independent hospitals, health and care commissioners and regulators in each neighbourhood in the UK, together with details of group operators, their holdings and financial information from statutory accounts. Alternatively, data can be selected specifically and supplied on disks or labels for mailing purposes.
Newsletters
Laing & Buisson publishes three authoritative monthly newsletters - Community Care Market News, which covers the long-term care sector, Healthcare Market News, which covers the acute healthcare sector, and Nursery & Childcare Market News, which covers the childcare sector.
Conferences
In addition to one-off conferences on subjects selected for their special interest or topicality, Laing & Buisson’s annual programme features a series of ‘annual’ conferences - considered unmissable, definitive events, covering key developments and leading edge practice in specific areas including Homecare, Telecare and Assistive Technology, Children’s Nurseries and Childcare, Extra Care, Long Term Care for Older People, Acute Healthcare, Private Healthcare Insurance and Investing in Healthcare. These annual conferences are followed by professionals who come to the events year after year.