Healthcare

The UK’s healthcare industry is new where huge investments are required to meet the present demand. With medical advances and the growing ageing population, the UK does not have the facilities to handle new future requirements. Domestic investors are consistently buying in the sector and overseas investment increased 20 per cent in the last year. In 2018, adult care homes and related living accommodation accounted for 24 per cent of the total deals of £350m. Last year the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system NHS turned 70 and the reports by global healthcare found there was a strong need for private capital in the country to meet the demand of growing ageing population. 

The NHS accounts for 85 per cent of such spending in the country and there is a strong requirement for private investment to make up for the rest. Such care homes can provide long term inflation related returns and it can be given to tenants for 25 to 35 years lease term.  

Healthcare systems are designed to meet the health needs of a target population where their precise configurations vary between national and sub-national entities. In some countries and authorities, healthcare planning is shared amongst the market participants, whereas elsewhere planning tends to occur more centrally amongst governments or any other coordinating bodies. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), all well-functioning healthcare systems require a strong financing mechanism, well-trained and fairly paid workforce, reliable information that can be used to base any decisions and policies and well maintained health facilities and logistics to distribute high-quality versions of medicine and technologies. On average, it can provide a stable 6 to 9 per cent of return y-o-y with 2 to 3 per cent of capital growth as the asset matures.