diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index bd57a42a7b..6fa43da4bd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -481,9 +481,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup Python
       uses: ./.github/actions/python_cache/
 
-    - name: Install torch-scatter
-      run: pip install torch-scatter -f https://data.pyg.org/whl/torch-1.12.0+cpu.html
-
       # TODO Let's try to remove this one from the unit tests
     - name: Install pdftotext
       run: wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.xpdfreader.com/xpdf-tools-linux-4.04.tar.gz && tar -xvf xpdf-tools-linux-4.04.tar.gz && sudo cp xpdf-tools-linux-4.04/bin64/pdftotext /usr/local/bin
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.base b/docker/Dockerfile.base
index 65500bef37..bd6a3abad2 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.base
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.base
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ FROM $build_image AS build-image
 
 ARG haystack_version
 ARG haystack_extras
-ARG torch_scatter
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     build-essential gcc git curl \
@@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ ENV PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip && \
     pip install --no-cache-dir .${haystack_extras} && \
     pip install --no-cache-dir ./rest_api && \
-    pip install --no-cache-dir torch-scatter -f $torch_scatter
 
 FROM $base_immage AS final
 
diff --git a/haystack/nodes/reader/table.py b/haystack/nodes/reader/table.py
index d80f45a249..30f0053a01 100644
--- a/haystack/nodes/reader/table.py
+++ b/haystack/nodes/reader/table.py
@@ -28,16 +28,6 @@
 from haystack.nodes.reader.base import BaseReader
 from haystack.modeling.utils import initialize_device_settings
 
-torch_scatter_installed = True
-torch_scatter_wrong_version = False
-try:
-    import torch_scatter  # pylint: disable=unused-import
-except ImportError:
-    torch_scatter_installed = False
-except OSError:
-    torch_scatter_wrong_version = True
-
-
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -122,15 +112,6 @@ def __init__(
                         [torch.device('cuda:0'), "mps", "cuda:1"]). When specifying `use_gpu=False` the devices
                         parameter is not used and a single cpu device is used for inference.
         """
-        if not torch_scatter_installed:
-            raise ImportError(
-                "Please install torch_scatter to use TableReader. You can follow the instructions here: https://github.com/rusty1s/pytorch_scatter"
-            )
-        if torch_scatter_wrong_version:
-            raise ImportError(
-                "torch_scatter could not be loaded. This could be caused by a mismatch between your cuda version and the one used by torch_scatter."
-                "Please try to reinstall torch-scatter. You can follow the instructions here: https://github.com/rusty1s/pytorch_scatter"
-            )
         super().__init__()
 
         self.devices, _ = initialize_device_settings(devices=devices, use_cuda=use_gpu, multi_gpu=False)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ff970b6c75..e09c4dae22 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "torch>1.9,<1.13",
   "requests",
   "pydantic",
-  "transformers==4.21.2",
+  "transformers==4.25.1",
   "nltk",
   "pandas",
   "rank_bm25",