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The increasing cost of technology, rise in wages and increasing use of services have the biggest impact on the growing healthcare costs in Estonia. According to the Foresight Centre’s new short report ‘Reasons for the Rapid Growth in Healthcare Costs in Estonia’, the share of healthcare costs in GDP will likely continue to increase if these trends continue.

A recent short report by the Foresight Centre shows that in the coming years, there will be an increasing need to involve foreign workforce in the Estonian healthcare system. Also, the proportion of healthcare workers who work in the private sector and in multiple jobs keeps growing, which in turn reduces the national healthcare system’s capacity and increases patient waiting times.