Berlin. In parliamentary affairs, the opposition’s approval of government bills is usually strictly limited. What is presented today Emergency Reform Model makes an exception in that Tino Sorge, health policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, admits that “we, as the Union faction, had already proposed many of the points now proposed”. The concern refers to a Your group’s requestwhich was introduced in mid-June last year.
In terms of content, Sorge does not contradict the government’s plans. “More telemedicine, better initial assessment and control are as necessary as a stronger network between emergency medical services, emergency rooms and rescue services. However, continued the CDU deputy, the traffic light coalition is not managing to synchronize the emergency reform and the hospital reform.” .
“It would have been urgently necessary to plan the two projects together. Clinics are an essential part of emergency care. If a hospital plays a prominent role in emergency care, this also has direct consequences for the continued existence of the clinic as a whole,” said Sorge in an interview with Ärzte Zeitung on Thursday.
Amid uncertainty about which hospitals will continue to exist after hospital reform, the planned integrated emergency centers “would be difficult to plan”. Concern: “The autonomous government partners and the states are unlikely to be able to determine locations for this until Minister Lauterbach presents a site-specific impact analysis for his hospital renovation.”
The fact that this impact analysis will not be available until the autumn shows “that once again the second step is taken before the first. Now, the fact that Minister Lauterbach planned clinical reform for months without hospitals, states and municipalities is revenge.” (cw/hom)