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Berlin – The Prime Minister’s Conference (MPK) will meet in Leipzig from October 23rd to 25th in the Congress Hall at the Leipzig Zoo. The hospital reform passed in the Bundestag last week is not on the agenda, a government spokesman for the Saxon State Chancellery confirmed when asked.
The current question is how the federal states will react to the reform in the Bundesrat. So far, six federal states have spoken out in favor of calling the mediation committee. However, the country leaders do not seem to be dealing with the issue in large groups – at least not in the plan to do so.
According to information from German medical journal The focus of the meeting is on federal and state migration and refugee policy as well as the current financial challenges facing municipalities.
In addition, it will address energy prices and energy supply security as well as supporting the transformation of the German automotive industry.
Also on the agenda are the reform treaty for public broadcasting, the inclusion of people with disabilities and federalism and subsidiarity in the EU budget.
The German Hospital Association (DGK) today appealed to the MPK to address hospital reform. The states must put hospital reform “at the top of their agenda,” emphasized DKG deputy board chairwoman Henriette Neumeyer today in the run-up to the meeting.
From their point of view, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and the traffic light factions in the Bundestag have hardly responded to the state demands for reform. Therefore, the “states from the perspective of the hospitals” have no choice but to call the Mediation Committee at the upcoming Federal Council meeting on November 22nd.
However, this has not yet been decided. The voting behavior of the states in the Bundesrat is currently not clear.
The DKG continues to see key points of criticism that need to be addressed. This involves, among other things, corrections to the number of performance groups, the stricter quality criteria and the previously planned type of reserve financing.
Ultimately, from the DKG’s point of view, the MPK must also be concerned with the economic situation of the hospitals, which is currently “acutely precarious” to a large extent. “Inflation compensation is still missing as a necessary financial bridge until the reform takes effect,” said Neumeyer.
She also criticized the fact that it is still completely unclear how the reform will affect care. The minister had promised the countries an impact analysis. This has not yet been presented. Last week, Lauterbach said that the countries could expect this this week. © may/aerzteblatt.de
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