With a product mix that includes high energy consumption imaging, capital equipment and personal health care, Philips has a unique spectrum of challenges in driving low carbon health care. Nevertheless, it has set the bar high in environmental sustainability goals, and is pressing suppliers to follow its lead.

Setting the patient safety bar too high will likely have the opposite effect in the case of the EU MDR. So believes the medtech industry in Switzerland, where work has begun at government level to pave the way for Swiss patients to have access to US FDA-approved medtech.

Germany is introducing a new system of paying for inpatient care, whereby funds will be allocated both to diagnosis related groups and to a provisional pot from which funds will be distributed according to the type of care delivered. In this podcast with Medtech Insight, Gabriel Flemming of Germany Trade & Invest explains what it all means for medtech.

An intense period of work overseen by Germany’s health ministry has culminated in the release of a new digital health care strategy. Germany now has a clear direction for how care will be transformed, says e-health chief Sebastian Zilch.

COVID-19 threat is abating and control measures easing, but government commitments made at height of pandemic to forearm against future health care emergencies should not be abandoned, says German Advisory Council on Health and Care and the IVD industry.

The UK’s MedTech Directorate is pressing ahead with 16 separate initiatives under its recently issued medtech strategy. It all adds to the sense that 2023 will be a major year for UK medtech.