Clinics and hospitals in Germany – medical expertise and technical innovation

There are over 2,000 hospitals in Germany. They include 37 university medical centres offering the very highest level of care, around 700 public-sector and church-owned hospitals and 500 hospitals belonging to private networks.

Besides caring for German residents, some 10 per cent of all hospitals also have a specifically international focus and have established additional services for patients from abroad.

To maintain this high standard of quality in the long term, numerous medical and scientific institutes are involved in quality assurance in the healthcare sector. Quality assurance is required by law in hospitals and doctor's surgeries, which are also obliged to implement (internal) quality-management processes. Doctors have to undergo regular CPD training and must be able to prove that they have done so.