The European clinical diagnostics market – Italy and the UK
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Italy is the third-largest clinical diagnostics country market in Europe, with a total market size only slightly smaller than that of France. Italy devoted 9.6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) to healthcare expenditures in 2010, up from 8.7% in 2007, according to statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This is higher than in the late 1990s and early 2000s, although spending as a percentage of GDP dropped as low as 7.4% in 1995, similar to rates in the UK and Spain.