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 each department.
In addition to one-off conferences on subjects selected for their special interest or topicality, Laing & Buisson’s annual programme features a series of conferences - definitive events covering key developments and leading edge practice in specific areas including homecare, supported living, extra care housing, long term care for older people, and learning disabilities and mental health sectors, acute healthcare, private healthcare insurance, investing in healthcare and children’s nurseries. The
Independent Healthcare Forum consists of two major conferences: the acute healthcare conference and the mental health conference and a workshop for private patient units and smaller providers, with an exhibition area representing a selection of providers to the sector. The
Independent Specialist Care Awards and the
Independent Healthcare Awards take place in March and September, highlighting the range of achievements and recognising best practice within the sectors, and paying tribute to those who have demonstrated excellence in their particular fields.
Laing & Buisson publishes a series of special market reports and directories on the health and community care sectors. Annual publications include the healthcare industry 'bible'
Laing’s Healthcare Market Review;
The Long Term Care Directory of Major Providers; and the
Care of Elderly People UK 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.
Newsletters
Laing & Buisson publishes two authoritative monthly newsletters -
Community Care Market News, which covers the long-term care sector and
Healthcare Market News, which covers the acute healthcare sector. Subscribers receive ten issues per year covering the latest events in those sectors alongside detailed analysis, special features and in-depth interviews. Subscribers also gain access to all the news covered in a searchable online archive of coverage which dates back well over ten years.
CareSearch and Health & Care Data
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, care home groups, independent healthcare establishments, care commissioners, PCTs and inspection and registration agencies for the whole of the UK. Further to this, details of group operators, their holdings and financial information from statutory accounts offer subscribers an invaluable resource. Alternatively, individual data sets are available to supply as csv files by email. In addition to the data included on Care
Search being available to purchase separately, home care agencies and groups can also be supplied.
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.