According to Health Minister Lauterbach, 25 percent of the clinics are likely to be closed without the planned hospital reform. The Bavarian department head Holetschek again called for improvements before today’s federal-state talks.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach emphasized the urgency of the plans before further consultations on the controversial hospital reform. “We are at the beginning of an uncontrolled death in hospitals,” said the SPD politician of the “Bild”. “Without the reform, 25 percent of hospitals would probably die.”
Lauterbach is meeting in Berlin this afternoon for further talks on the matter with his country colleagues.
Holetschek warns of the loss of local supply
The Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek again called on Lauterbach to revise his reform plans. The countries should be able to decide for themselves what care takes place where, he told the editorial network Germany. “Anything else is unconstitutional.”
It must not happen that decisions are made about the local hospitals at the “green table in the Berlin bubble”. “I see the current proposals for reform jeopardize the supply close to home, especially in large countries like Bavaria,” he warned.
changes in remuneration system provided by the clinics
The federal minister had previously made it clear that he was aiming for more concrete proposals for a law over the summer. In essence, the remuneration system is to be changed with flat rates for treatment cases in order to relieve the hospitals of economic pressure. Discussions with the federal states are primarily about the planned classification of the clinic network with corresponding financing – from basic care close to home to a second level with further offers up to maximum care providers such as university clinics.
Uniform quality criteria are also planned so that clinics can provide certain services. The industry had recently again warned of the acute financial difficulties of many hospitals.