Tag: Health
Covid-19: Spahn calls for a booster summit
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) would like a summit between representatives of the Federal Government and the Federal States to coordinate booster vaccinations against Covid-19. To break the fourth Covid-19 wave, booster vaccinations are essential, Spahn said. The vaccinations carried out by…
Vaccination ordinance provides for the right to booster vaccination
(GermanPolicy.com) – In principle, all citizens are entitled to a booster vaccination against the Coronavirus, the Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed. For certain groups such as people over the age of 60, medical staff or people with an immune deficiency, a booster vaccination is…
Health system: Lauterbach sees “construction sites”
(GermanPolicy.com) – Health expert Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has identified “huge construction sites” in the health care system. During the Corona crisis “in the last two years a lot has been left behind,” he explained. The balance sheets of the hospitals showed deficits, university hospitals in…
Statutory health association calls for reforms in care
(GermanPolicy.com) – The vice-chairman of the Central Association of Statutory Health Insurance (GKV) has called for reforms in statutory care insurance. According to media reports, Gernot Kiefer said that the implementation of solutions to the problems at hand cannot be postponed. Sufficiently qualified and better…
High numbers of Covid cases in hospitals
(GermanPolicy.com) – The number of Covid-19 cases is increasing. This also increases concerns about the clinics being overloaded. The managing director of the German Hospital Society, Gass, warned that, in the next two weeks, another 3,000 Covid-19 patients will have to be treated in intensive…
Braun (CDU) criticizes renaming of the ‘epidemic situation’
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery, Braun (CDU), has criticized the end of the ‘epidemic situation’ that the traffic-light parties are planning. In certain Federal States, not only did the number of cases increase, but also the hospitalization rate, which has…
Towards a transitional regulation against Covid-19
(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag Mützenich has announced that there should be a uniform transitional regulation with regard to the Corona pandemic by March 20. The ‘epidemic situation of national scope’ is expected to expire despite an increase in the number…
Corona pandemic: ‘Freedom Day’ at the end of March?
(GermanPolicy.com) – At the beginning of the spring season in the new year, the containment measures against the Corona pandemic are to expire. According to media reports, this is the intention of the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP. First of all, a special federal…
Söder for keeping up the the epidemic situation framework
(GermanPolicy.com) – Bavaria’s Prime Minister Söder (CSU) has spoken out against an end to the law on the epidemic situation at the federal level. Should this happen anyway, there will be “no more legal basis” – neither for tests, for masks or the 3D rules….
Clinics could serve as outpatient providers, SPD
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to a draft paper leaked before the beginning of the soon-to-begin coalition negotiations, the SPD wants to turn hospitals into outpatient providers, thus diversifying the sovereignty of resident doctors. This way, gaps are to be closed and cooperation with general practitioners possible,…
Greens: guaranteeing three months’ nursing leave
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Greens want to enforce a ‘care period plus.’ Employees who looked after relatives or confidants might in the future be allowed to take leave of absence for up to three months. SPD health expert Lauterbach said that one had to take action…
No lockdown during the fourth Corona wave expected
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier assumes that in the course of the fourth wave of the Corona pandemic, a new lockdown, for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered, can be avoided. According to media reports, Altmaier expects restaurants…