Rolf Mtzenich (l-r), chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Saskia Esken, federal chairman of the SPD, and Lars Klingbeil, federal chairman of the SPD, attend the closed meeting of the SPD parliamentary group. /image alliance, Kay Nietfeld
Berlin The SPD parliamentary group wants to support the hospital reform of Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD). This is shown in a template for the closed meetings of the executive board, the parliamentary group board and the parliamentary group. The internal use paper is German medical journal before.
On the subject of health, he states that clinics with more experienced medical staff are able to carry out treatments with significantly better results due to the greater number of cases or the greater degree of specialization.
The data are clear and the approach of the hospital reform to assign service groups in the future is therefore correct. However, according to the SPD, no one should have to travel long distances to the nearest emergency room if they have urgent medical needs.
Flexibility is therefore needed. An appropriate balance must be found between local proximity and the quality of hospital care, the party says in the petition. It is also convinced that hospital reform will sustainably improve hospital financing through the introduction of flat maintenance fees.
Hybrid DRGs, municipal medical care centres (MVZ) and newly established hospitals with a wide range of outpatient services are, from the Social Democrats’ point of view, the right way forward, especially for rural areas. This will enable us to cover urgent medical needs. This ranges from initial care for injured people to minor acute operations, which will continue to be carried out locally in the future.
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The party’s agenda also includes working with states and autonomous governments to ensure outpatient care. This requires a combination of several measures, the document says.
More medical study locations
More places for medical studies need to be made available in order to respond to demographic changes and changes in working time patterns in the medical profession. However, the party also makes it clear that this can only help in the long term. Specialist medical care, especially in rural areas, is already becoming increasingly difficult, the SPD writes.
We will therefore support and develop innovative care concepts that are already being developed across the country with great commitment from all stakeholders involved. Examples include grants to take over practices in rural areas, telemedicine, digitalisation, networking and cooperation.
To address the shortage of skilled workers, the party is counting on greater interprofessional cooperation between the health professions. A new division of tasks and responsibilities between professions as well as the transfer of additional skills have made the health professions more attractive.
This also counteracts the shortage of skilled workers and thus strengthens health and nursing care in rural areas. To this end, they plan to test direct access to medicine suppliers, establish community health nurses and modernize outdated professional laws. © may/bee/aerzteblatt.de