Spinal injuries (paraplegic/tetraplegic patients) and/or traumatic brain injuries (cranial/brain trauma) confront not only the injured individual but also the family members, the service providers involved and the SUVA with great challenges.

SwissDRG (Swiss Diagnosis Related Groups) is the new tariff system for acute somatical in-patient hospital treatments that regulates payments for such treatments under the statutory health insurance legislation (Krankenversicherungsgesetz (KVG)) across Switzerland on a case-based lump sum basis.

Each hospital stay is allotted to a case group and paid for on a lump sum basis on the basis of certain criteria such as main diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, treatments and further factors.

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Co-operation and networking across institutions is an essential factor in successful occupational reinsertion. The customer (always an accident victim in the context of what follows) should be able to benefit from as comprehensive a service as possible from social insurance institutions.

Employees exposed to occupational noise in Switzerland are regularly examined under the SUVA "audiomobile" programme.

Any findings that are outside limits are routinely recorded in audiograms. These are then transferred to ENT specialists for examination.

The results of the NLST (National Lung Screening Trial) study showed that the use of Low Dose Spiral Computer Tomography with persons with a significantly increased risk of lung cancer can reduce the mortality risk by identifying lung cancer at an earlier stage than the use of conventional X-rays. At the end of 2011 the SUVA decided to offer this possibility on a voluntary basis to those of its insured members who had been exposed to asbestos and had a similar risk of developing lung cancer. The programme started in 2012.

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