Health minister Karl Lauterbach was at pains to emphasize "collaboration" on several occasions during his keynote speech to the 45th annual Deutscher Krankenhaustag (DKT), which was held at Medica (14-17 November 2022). Ongoing hospital reform initiatives will require a joint effort from all stakeholders. It will not be a fait accompli authored by the government and a handful of scientific experts, he stressed.
The forthcoming large-scale structural health reform will tackle diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) and will push for increased access to ambulatory care. The final decisions will be the product of a four-stage...