Healthcare in transition by Christoph Müller, Partner

It is well known that the Swiss healthcare system is undergoing significant structural change. Many hospitals and other health care facilities have been privatized by the cantons without providing them with sustainable structures and financial cushions for a post-cantonal future. This has now, in difficult staffing times post Corona, led to most of the large hospitals being dependent on state (post-) aid.

In terms of personnel, the hospitals are currently exposed to growing pressure on the labor market and thus to very tough competition. Here, temporary recruiters often play a shady role, raising the prices for temporary nursing staff many times over and motivating qualified nursing staff to give up their permanent positions for a temporary assignment. Sure, this is the free market economy in which hospitals now have to compete, but in the wake of the discussion about healthcare costs in general, this ‘spiral’ upward, leading to even higher costs.

HR departments of these hospitals do their utmost to counteract this development. For example, they introduce employer branding measures and try to position themselves as well as possible. However, we often see during our assignments in hospitals that they are not yet developed enough in the HR area to successfully manage such developments.

Neither do they have sufficiently defined HR processes, nor the tools to handle these processes digitally. Digitization is often only in its infancy and must be driven forward with all its might.

This is where we at HR-Unlimited can provide valuable services, in the alignment and management of an HR department, but also in HR business partner roles. Recruiting and service center deployments are also among our proven strengths.

If we optimize and further professionalize HR functions in hospitals, they will also become less dependent on recruitment agencies, which are currently doing very good business, and strengthen their own employer attractiveness.

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HR Unlimited Ltd., www.hr-unlimited.com, is an owner-managed company specializing in interim management, based in Glattpark Opfikon, Switzerland, and has been offering corresponding assignments in Switzerland and abroad for more than 21 years. HR Unlimited Ltd. is Andreas Biel, Tanja Biel, Balz Schlittler, Marcel Brader, Christian Hobi, Martin Hegglin, Christoph Müller, Georg Boos, Daniel R. Brunner, Andreas Gnepf, Monika Wälty and a large, qualified pool of interim managers we know personally.