healthcare.digital December 28, 2025
European HealthTech and MedTech Consolidation Outlook 2026: The Great Rationalisation and the Industrialisation of Care
The European healthcare technology and services landscape is entering 2026 at a profound inflection point. After a period of post-pandemic recalibration in 2024 and a tentative recovery in 2025, the market is poised for a robust, albeit structurally transformed, resurgence in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The defining theme for 2026 is “Industrialisation.”
This concept signifies a departure from the fragmented, venture subsidised experimentation that characterised the 2019–2022 era, moving instead toward scalable, profit generating platforms that leverage operational leverage, regulatory fortitude and vertical integration to dominate their respective sub-sectors.
The consolidation wave of 2026 will not be a rising tide that lifts all boats. Instead,...
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