Summary

The hospital market in India is valued at INR 45 bn in 2009 and is estimated to grow by 27%. The market accounts for a substantial share of the total healthcare industry and is dominated by the private sector. The growth in consumer spending on healthcare coupled with the increase in life-style diseases is expected to attract major investors.  

The report begins with an introduction to the hospital market and includes figures for the market size and growth, segmentation in the healthcare market, growth and market share of various segments in public and private hospitals.  

An analysis of the drivers explains factors contributing to the growth of the hospital market based on poor public healthcare infrastructure, increasing spend on healthcare services, increase in lifestyle-related diseases, medical tourism and nascent but growing medical insurance. The key challenges discussed are high start-up cost and capital expenditure and shortage of medical professionals.

Competition section profiles the major players in the market. The section contains a snapshot of the corporations' financial performance and business highlights, providing an insight into the existing competitive scenario. This also includes a detailed region-wise segregation of major hospitals providing details regarding their location, capacity, expansion and investment details.

The future outlook in the market has been identified and includes the favourable policies on FDI and taxations that will increase foreign participation, large private equity investments especially in regional hospitals, large hospital groups making strategic acquisitions with future opportunities being limited, evolving concept of "health cities" which have scale and provide a host of satellite services, emergence of telemedicine for rural areas with participation from private sector and government and supply constraints that are expected to remain in top cities.

Table of Contents

Page 1: Executive Summary
Overview
Page 2: Overview of the hospital market in India - Market Size and Growth (current and forecasted), Segment Split
Page 3: Key segments, segment definition and capacity-Segmented Share and Growth of Public and Private Hospitals
Drivers & Challenges
Page 4: Summary
Page 5-9: Drivers
Page 10: Challenges
Competition
Page 11: Overview
Page 12-15: Profile of major players
Page 16-18: Region-wise profiles (location, capacity, expansion and investment details)
Future Outlook
Page 19: Summary
Page 20-31: Expected outlook-Major Hospitals to be Commissioned (location, capacity, investment, expansion plans), Capacity Additions in Major cities (current and forecasted)