Prediction of the market space of low and medium-end medical services in China in the next few years

IMS, a global medical consultancy, told China Securities News that in the next few years, the domestic low-end medical market is expected to achieve a growth rate of about 30% In the middle and low-end medical market, the local medical device industry is expected to take the lead in gaining benefits and high growth opportunities Among them, there is a great potential for the growth of medical demand in secondary, primary, county-level hospitals and township hospitals at the grass-roots level, and the low-end medical market will be expanded accordingly, and the search for high growth investment opportunities in the medical industry will continue to sink According to IMS analysis, with the comprehensive coverage of domestic medical insurance and policy support for primary medical care, China's three-level medical system of "top heavy and light foot" will be reversed in the next few years, and the diagnosis and treatment share of three-level hospitals at the top of the "inverted pyramid" is expected to decrease, while the diagnosis and treatment share of basic medical institutions at the bottom will grow rapidly In order to adapt to the huge situation of the grass-roots medical groups in our country, we need to change it into a "positive pyramid" pattern of "head light and feet heavy" By the end of 2011, the coverage of basic medical insurance in China will reach 90%, significantly higher than that in 2005 According to the data provided by the Ministry of health in mid October, at present, the network of rural health service system has been further strengthened, and 11 provinces have incorporated village clinics into the overall planning of new rural cooperative medical clinic The next step will be to ensure the full coverage of basic drug system in village clinics and promote the establishment of new mechanisms at the grassroots level within the year According to the new health care reform plan, the central government will fund 2000 county-level hospitals and 29000 township hospitals in 2009-2011, upgrade 5000 township hospitals and 3700 community medical institutions, and build 11000 new community medical institutions The current target has reached the implementation node Therefore, the research institute said that the promotion effect of the new medical reform and the comprehensive coverage of medical insurance on the primary medical market will be accelerated from this year At present, the medical device industry takes the lead in benefiting In the procurement of low-end medical devices in China, local enterprises rank first Meng Jinli, chief consultant of IMS management consulting department, believes that this is due to the government's strong support for local enterprises in the primary medical market In addition, medical equipment is updated every 8-12 years, which will also bring huge market space It is understood that during the "12th Five Year Plan" period, China will increase its support for the development of domestic medical devices and give priority to the purchase of domestic medical devices when implementing centralized bidding procurement The Ministry of Health said that from 2012 to 2015, the central government will consider supporting grass-roots medical institutions in the provision of basic equipment, strengthening the construction of provincial, municipal and county level CDC test capacity, the construction of public health professional prevention and control institutions and the construction of occupational health prevention and control institutions, and preparing necessary equipment In addition, the rural emergency system will continue to improve, and the number of ambulances and necessary emergency equipment will gradually increase In 2011, the investment in the construction of rural first aid system will reach 720 million yuan, and the investment in other medical equipment will continue to increase The continuous improvement of A-share medical device company's performance in 2011 confirms this trend In the context of rising costs, Xinhua medical bulletin shows that the company's net profit from January to September increased by 50% - 100% year on year, which is due to the "growth of demand in domestic medical device market", driving the increase of orders, the expansion of sales scale and the growth of net profit The performance of Yuyue medical, score medical, Shangrong medical, HongRi pharmaceutical and other medical equipment enterprises in the year is also excellent.