University hospitals under severe financial pressure

(Keystone-ATS) Gathered before the press, heads of Switzerland’s five university hospitals and medical faculties highlighted the central role of their institutions as pillars of healthcare as well as research centers and training institutes.

This role is currently under strong pressure due to significant investments, on the one hand in digital and architectural infrastructures and on the other hand in the adaptation of working conditions.

These investments are necessary, but they are not taken into account in the prices. “The pricing partnership is thus emptied of its meaning,” writes the Swiss University Medicine association (unimedsuisse) in a press release, “and it is above all the population who will suffer.”