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Potsdam If inpatient basic care capacities are replaced, investments must be made at the same time in the existing and necessary expanded outpatient structures. This is emphasized by the Brandenburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVBB) and the Brandenburg State Medical Association (LKB) in their joint demands for the state elections on September 22nd.

Savings in the inpatient sector must be invested in outpatient medicine in order to ensure more efficient and patient-oriented care, according to the KV and the Medical Association. In principle, there is a need to promote general practitioners, specialists and psychotherapists in the area in order to ensure comprehensive care in Brandenburg. This includes, in particular, investments in modern practice structures and telemedicine as well as the abolition of budgeting for specialist remuneration in the outpatient sector.

Inpatient care is also taken into account in the demands paper. It states that the implementation of the planned hospital reform must be done with a sense of proportion and that inpatient care must be maintained in the area. In the context of state hospital planning in Brandenburg, the LKB must also be taken into account as a voting member.

LKB and the KV Brandenburg also expressly point out that medical training must be efficiently maintained as part of the hospital reform. The state should ensure that medical training and continuing education and training networks are promoted.

In order to increase the attractiveness of the medical profession and thus motivate young doctors to settle in Brandenburg, there must be better remuneration models and scholarship programs.

Regarding the latter, Carla Kniestedt (Greens), health policy spokeswoman for her parliamentary group, noted during a panel discussion on the upcoming state election that we will have to wait and see what the rural doctor scholarship program, which has been running since 2019, brings. It will not be possible to say anything about the hoped-for successes before 2025, and at the same time, considerable costs are incurred for financial support. There is no magic formula for the shortage of skilled workers.

Michael Schierack (CDU), health policy spokesman, pointed out that, in his opinion, money or earning potential is not the main obstacle to young doctors setting up a practice.

Schierack, himself an orthopedist with his own practice, emphasized that he finds the high level of bureaucracy particularly annoying. The Medical Association and the KV also advocate a reduction in bureaucracy in their demands paper: measures that have no proven benefit in improving care and promoting patient safety should be abolished. © aha/aerzteblatt.de