Key success factors

Well-organised and comprehensive primary care

Patients enter the healthcare system via primary care led by GPs and a multidisciplinary team.

High-level expertise

Expertise levels in the Swedish healthsystem are very high, and the right skills are used at the right point in the treatment chain.

Quality registries and benchmarking

Good documentation of results and open comparisons, all the way down to clinic level, ensure world-class healthcare.

Collaborative innovation climate

Collaboration between industry, academia, care providers, and patients yields both new medicines and medical technology.

Public health policy

A long tradition of a proactive public health policy results in preventative measures – and a healthier population.

10 Swedish medical breakthroughs

Leksell Gamma Knife

Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a non-invasive method for treating brain disorders with the highest precision.

The ultrasound

The use of ultrasound for medical diagnostics, led to today’s electrocardiograms.

L-dopa

Gold standard in the clinical treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Discovery awarded with the Nobel Prize!

The dialysis machine

Life-saving treatment for chronic renal patients.

The implantable pacemaker

Helping 3.5 million hearts beat since 1958.

Titanium implants

Bone-anchored titanium implants, in use since 1965 and adopted world-wide.

Gel filtration chromatography

Separating biomolecules at a higher speed than dialysis (minutes vs hours).

Losec

World’s first proton pump inhibitor radically changed the treatment for reflux disease and peptic ulcer disease.

The turbuhaler

A breath-activated dry powder inhaler improving lives all over the world.

Lucas

Life-saving mechanical chest compression system for pre-hospital cardiac arrest.