Berlin. According to Allensbach’s latest survey on citizens’ trust in the healthcare system, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) believes that politicians must do more to strengthen practices.
It is time to “stop the gradual collapse of the health system,” the KBV announced on Friday. “We therefore need a turnaround in health policy.”
KBV Vice-President Dr. Stephan Hofmeister warned that public dissatisfaction with the health system could increase. If Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) sticks to his legislative plans, “in the future, citizens will have to go to a health kiosk with their complaints or go to the hospital for outpatient treatment. That is exactly what they do not want.” It is incomprehensible that the minister wants to “sink a lot of money into new structures instead of strengthening practices.”
Avoid further bureaucracy build-up
The KBV reiterated its demands: doctors should be relieved of the burden through less bureaucracy and documentation requirements. More medical training sites should be created and care in rural areas should be specifically improved.
In response to the survey results, the Lower Saxony Medical Association called for more efficient processes in the healthcare system. This includes assessing the bureaucratic consequences of new rules and regulations in advance and comparing them with their intended purpose.
Slow scanning
In addition, the Medical Association criticized on Friday that the potential of digitalization was not being fully exploited. “Overall, we are not progressing quickly enough,” said ÄK Vice President Dr. Marion Charlotte Renneberg.
A representative survey The Allensbach Demoscopic Institute on behalf of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung showed that the vast majority of respondents consider the current status quo to be (still) satisfactory; however, in just two years, this proportion has fallen from 81 to 67 percent. Every second person is convinced that the performance of the health system is deteriorating. (yuck)