Bored of borders: Breaking down Europe's silos

It’ll never work in our healthcare system’ sneered the health minister. 'Our system is different and unique’. ‘Nor ours’, added their international counterpart. ‘Our people, system, and health issues are all entirely idiosyncratic’. Except…well…they’re not, are they? If the pandemic showed us anything, it’s that health doesn’t really care about lines on a map. Every system has its own challenges, its own quirks, its own individualities. But better outcomes were never achieved by looking only inwards. What can we learn from our neighbours? What technology, best practices and ways of working can we transfer to improve our own systems? And how do we ensure the default setting is symbiosis, not silos?