Laing & Buisson conducts an active programme of consultancy and research projects for large and small client organisations engaged in purchasing, providing or investing in health, community care and childcare services. Clients span all sectors, private, voluntary and public but the range of work is restricted exclusively to health, community care and childcare which are Laing & Buisson's special area of expertise. Client organisations which commission Laing & Buisson can benefit from the company's unique position within these sectors, its understanding of the key market, political and regulatory issues, its top-level contacts and its unrivalled database of information, much of it available only through Laing & Buisson.
Areas of expertise
Over ten years Laing & Buisson has developed a recognised expertise in the markets for a wide range of health and care services. These include:
- residential and nursing homes
- home care and other forms of domiciliary care
- assisted living and other forms of integrated housing and care
- private medical/surgical hospitals
- private medical insurance
- psychiatric services
- dentistry
- general practice and other forms of primary care
- new medical technologies
- children's nurseries
Clients of Laing & Buisson
Laing & Buisson undertakes consultancy for a wide range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations in the UK, Europe and further abroad. Recent and current clients include:
- private hospital groups
- private medical insurers
- housing associations and other registered social landlords
- private and voluntary care sector home operators
- home care providers
- NHS trusts
- health authorities
- operators of telemedicine services and other new medical technologies
- insurers and re-insurers
- banks, venture capital companies and other finance professionals
- local authority care purchasing departments
- local authority in-house home care providers and Part III homes
- government departments
- representative bodies for care providers and purchasers
- children's nursery operators
Types of assignment
Some of Laing & Buisson's main areas of consultancy and research work for current and recent clients are described below.
- due diligence work for either party to acquisitions and disposals
- due diligence work for buyouts of health and care related businesses
- strategic advice to health and community care providers
- private hospital / private patient unit feasibility studies
- care home marketing - advice and implementation
- advice to local authorities on the options for Part III homes
- advice to local authorities on outsourcing in-house home care services
- market testing for transfers of Part III homes and home care operations
- benchmarking studies for care providers
- assessment of corporate efficiency and advice on restructuring organisations
- market potential analyses for new services and products
- market and competitor analyses for care service providers
Personnel, skills and experience
Laing & Buisson is able to apply the skills of its permanent staff and associates to all of their consulting projects. All fee-earning staff are experienced and highly qualified professionals with multidisciplinary skills and experience gained at senior levels in the health and community care industries in the UK and overseas.
The skills and professional background of senior staff include:
- strategic and tactical marketing
- general management
- health economics
- corporate finance
- property development and surveying
- care management
- quality assurance.
Further information
For further information, or to discuss your requirements in more detail, please contact: Office Manager, 020 7833 9123, info@laingbuisson.co.uk
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