HOPE, the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation, is an international non-profit organisation, created in 1966. HOPE represents national public and private hospital associations and hospital owners, either federations of local and regional authorities or national health services. Today, HOPE is made up of 32 organisations coming from 26 Member States of the European Union, plus Switzerland. HOPE mission is to promote improvements in the health of citizens throughout Europe, high standard of hospital care and to foster efficiency with humanity in the organization and operation of hospital and healthcare services.

Hospital Healthcare Europe 2009/2010
The Official HOPE Reference Book

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HOSPITALS in the 27 Member States of the European Union

Knowledge on hospitals in Europe is sparse and spread in different sources. To make easily available the core information HOPE has developed three tools.

Facts and figures
provide detailed information about the situation of hospitals in each EU Member State. It considers the demographic and socio-economic condition, the healthcare systems features, hospital planning, governance and financing.
Hospitals in the EU 27: Facts and figures

Comparative key figures
examine the most significant data and indicators for a better understanding of the overall situation of hospitals. They present the trends over the last five to ten years on hospital activity, acute care hospital capacity and healthcare workforce.
Hospitals in the EU 27: Comparative key figures

Hospitals in the 27 Member States of the European Union
is a joint work of HOPE and DEXIA, both a paper poster gathering information for each of the EU Member States and a book providing a synthesis.
Hospitals in the EU 27: The book