In the face of an aging population, what are the "pain points" in the nursing industry?

Status of nursing services

1, the trend brought about by demographic changes, the demand for care is huge and continues to grow

According to the results of the Fourth Sample Survey on the Living Conditions of the Elderly in Urban and Rural China released by the Office of Aging in 2016, there are about 40.63 million disabled and semi-disabled elderly people in China, accounting for 18.3% of the total elderly population. In the next 20 years, the aging of China's population will become more severe. At the same time, with the implementation of the universal two-child policy, the infant and maternal ratio will be greatly increased.

The demand for medical services, especially nursing services, among the elderly, newborns and pregnant women is much higher than the population average, studies show that about 0.5% of people over 65 years of age need hospital treatment, about 2% need institutional care, and about 5% need community care.

In addition, the care needs of other groups are also being released at an accelerated pace, such as daily care of sub-health people, physiotherapy care and comprehensive recuperation, which is based on the care needs generated by improving the quality of life.

2, the shortage of professional nursing staff is huge

Compared with the huge demand for nursing services, China's existing professional nursing staff gap is huge, China's hospital bed to nurse ratio is 1∶0.27, the actual requirement is 1∶0.4, in the United States and other developed countries, the bed-to-nurse ratio has reached 1∶2 ratio. The increasing demand for social care, community care and home care will further increase the care gap.

In addition, the nursing service charge in China is only about 10% of the nursing cost, which is far lower than the actual human cost. Nursing is a typical modern service industry, involving both personal consumption services and public services, and these huge gaps mean new industrial opportunities.

3. Nursing technology and level need to be improved

In the medical service, there are "three medical treatment, seven nursing" concept, the current nursing mode of our country mainly has two kinds:

First, the hospital bed nursing, because there is no professional independent nursing institutions, when the need for care, there are repeated, intermittent occupation of comprehensive second and third hospital beds;

The second is family care, but the small family model and the huge expenditure of long-term care costs make it difficult to sustain, and family member care is not up to the quality of professional care, can not meet the needs of more advanced care. These two nursing methods can not meet the existing clinical nursing needs, let alone the needs of large nursing.

In addition, with the diversification of nursing needs and the rapid development of modern science and technology, a variety of high-tech technologies should also be combined with the characteristics of new nursing has been widely in-depth research and application, but the current nursing theory, means, technology is still relatively single, can not meet the rapid growth of needs.

4, the market gap is large, the service chain is fragmented

At present, the nursing in our country is mainly medical nursing, and nurses provide professional nursing services, lacking self-contained home nursing, and nursing staff are characterized by low education and low income. There is a huge gap in the market for professional care for disabled elderly people, infants, perinatal women, elderly care and high-end needs, and the service docking between various institutions is not smooth, and the care service undertaking outside the hospital is not smooth, and a perfect nursing industry has not been formed.

In short, the nursing industry is facing a single institution, the lack of equipment, the scarcity of practitioners, and the situation that the function has yet to be changed, which also means that the industrialization of nursing has a huge prospect.

Out-of-hospital nursing market is broad, enterprises have five development directions

Lin Yanglin, CEO of New Mileage Hospital Group, believes: "In addition to the nursing needs of hospitals, including community health and medical institutions, the combination of medical and nursing care, the nursing needs of the elderly, has not been standardized, standardized, and quality, from the perspective of the entire market, it is still focused on the technical role of nurses in the hospital."

In the out-of-hospital market, the care needs of more than 40 million disabled and semi-disabled elderly people have given the nursing industry a huge opportunity, as early as the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued in 2011, the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the construction of social pension service system (draft for comments)" has been mentioned. In 2020, the potential market size of China's elderly care services and life care will exceed 500 billion yuan.

However, at the same time, the proportion of aging population and chronic disease population is rising, and although the market outside the hospital is large, it also faces problems such as talent, business model and standardization.