Neurosurgery is a branch of surgery, which is based on surgery as the main treatment method, applying unique neurosurgery scientific research methods to study the human nervous system, some related parts, such as skull and scalp, and certain genetic metabolic disorders or dysfunction diseases, which explores new diagnosis, treatment, and prevention technology as a discipline.
Neurosurgery, recognized as the highest-status field in medicine based on surgical treatments, is a kind of treatment method that makes use of the human mental system and some accessory parts, which is more traumatic to patients and extremely complex, also with a high incidence of illness.
It has been more than 100 years since the initial establishment of surgery. From the perspective of the development of surgical operations, Neurosurgery can be divided into three periods, including general neurosurgery, micro neurosurgery, and towards minimally invasive neurosurgery, mainly treating diseases of the brain, spinal cord and other nervous system caused by trauma, such as brain trauma caused by a car accident, or a tumor in the brain that requires surgery. The high-value medical consumables used for the treatment of these diseases are classified as neurosurgery high-value medical consumables.
Divided by product use category, neurosurgery high-value medical consumables can be divided into those kinds, of skull materials, meningeal materials, drainage materials, suture materials, nerve stimulation materials, EEG monitoring materials, and auxiliary tools. According to the procurement catalog of high-value medical consumables in each province, neurovascular interventional products are classified into the vascular interventional category.
Market Situation of High-Value Medical Consumables for Neurosurgery
Modern neurosurgery originated in the United Kingdom in the 1870s. In the 1930s, modern neurosurgery was introduced to China, starting relatively late. After the reform and opening up, with the introduction of foreign advanced imaging equipment, China's neurosurgery entered the period of rapid development, in which the market for high-value medical consumables used in neurosurgery has also developed. In 2010, the domestic neurosurgery high-value consumables market was 1.3 billion yuan. After an optimistic development, the domestic market for high-value neurosurgery consumables has increased from 3.6 billion yuan in 2018 to 4 billion yuan in 2019, with a growth rate of 10%.
In the entire medical field, neurosurgery has always been one of the most cutting-edge frontier disciplines. The high-value medical consumables used in neurosurgery often require very high technical content and precision. However, the high-value medical consumables market for neurosurgery in China has started relatively late, there is a big technological gap between domestic products and imported products. At present, except for the artificial spine membrane market which has completed import substitution, in domestic neurosurgery high-value medical consumables market, other fields are mainly imported products.
Domestic Substitution Has Accelerated, Encouraged by National Policies
In recent years, national policies have continuously clarified the strategic goals of vigorously developing the health industry, encouraging and supporting the integration of production, teaching and research, and establishing industrial technology alliances to improve the international competitiveness of the medical industry. It is necessary to increase R&D investment and the technological content of products to break the current industry structure and the monopoly of international giants.
Also, since the review and approval system has been optimized, high-end equipment has been introduced into the national support catalog. High-value medical consumables for neurosurgery as the most sophisticated discipline in the medical field are high-tech products with high technical content and high industry threshold, which has always been a sector that the country attaches great importance to. Many innovative products have entered the channel of funding support and priority approval. With the continuous technological advancement of domestic enterprises, the degree of import substitution will continue to accelerate.
With the aging of the domestic population and the acceleration of urbanization, eating and living habits have undergone great changes, in which neurological diseases have shown a high growth trend. Parkinson's disease is a common degenerative disease of the nervous system, which occurs mostly in middle-aged and elderly people. The prevalence of Parkinson's disease in people over 65 years old in China is about 1% to 2%. There are about 4 million Parkinson’s disease patients in the world, of which about 1.7 million are in China, accounting for nearly half of the proportion. This aspect alone has greatly promoted the domestic neurosurgery high-value medical consumables market, let alone Parkinson as just a small branch of neurosurgical diseases.
Although China has vigorously promoted policies such as centralized procurement, import-substitution, and price control, in recent years, which have slowed down year by year, the main growth trend has not changed. It is expected that the market size of neurosurgery high-value medical consumables will continue to remain relatively large in the future. Rapid growth.
The Better Medical System and the Improving Residents’ Awareness of Health Care Are the Main Drivers
Since the reform and opening up, the medical insurance system of China has developed rapidly. The short 20 years have achieved many national experiences, from the basic medical insurance system for urban workers issued in 1998 to the integration and establishment of medical insurance for urban and rural residents in 2016 to achieve universal coverage and then to 2018, which cannot be achieved in decades or even longer in any of the world. As of this year, the number of people participating in basic medical insurance across the country has reached 1.35 billion, with a stable participation rate of over 95%. Under the popularization of preferential policies, people with increasing income have begun to pay more attention to their own health, and their treatment concepts have improved compared with before, willing to invest more in medical treatment, which has become one of the main growth drivers of China’s medical equipment including high-value medical consumables for neurosurgery.
At this stage, although the status of domestic high-value medical consumables for neurosurgery is not optimistic, it does not mean that there is no hope, which just takes time to test and break through step by step, finally achieving marketization and localization.
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