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Meeting of the German-speaking health ministers
21 August 2014 - 22 August 2014
At the Kleine Scheidegg, facing the Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau, Alain Berset hosts the “health quintet”: Hermann Gröhe (Germany), Alois Stöger (Austria), Lydia Mutsch (Luxembourg) and Mauro Pedrazzini (Liechtenstein). It is the second meeting, after Münster in 2013, and the first with five participants.
The ministers discuss quality and patient safety: in Switzerland, some 70,000 hospital patients a year contract a hospital-acquired infection. They also discuss dementia care. Their final declaration provides for stronger exchanges.
Thursday 21 August 2014 — Lauterbrunnen and Kleine Scheidegg
- Journey by historic train from Lauterbrunnen to the Kleine Scheidegg
- Presentation of the FOPH campaigns against measles and antibiotic resistance
- Ministers’ dinner: dinner speech
Friday 22 August 2014 — Kleine Scheidegg
- Working session on hospital-acquired infections and quality transparency, with a presentation by Professor Andreas F. Widmer of the University Hospital Basel
- Session on dementia strategies, introduced by Hermann Gröhe
- Medicine prices and preparation of the 2015 meeting in Austria, introduced by Alois Stöger
- Adoption of the final declaration
Speeches on this site
- Rencontre des ministres de la santé germanophones : dîner à la Petite Scheidegg (in German, French-language page)
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