Change at the top for German hospitals group
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The spring conference of the German hospital federation, DKG, saw incoming chief executive Georg Baum officially take up his duties, in succession to Jorg Robbers, whose last 10 years of his 23 years at the federation were in steering the organisation. Federation president Dr Rudolf Kosters used the occasion to criticise the high level of bureaucracy surrounding healthcare and related policy decisions in Germany, and called on the statutory sickness funds to enter into joint high-level talks on ways around this.
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