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The „Care Climate Index 2019“, which has just been presented in Berlin and was commissioned by the German Care Conference, analyses the mood in the care sector every year and compares the data with previous years. According to the index, the mood in the industry is better than in 2018 (95.3) with 97.3 as an overall value, but worse than in 2017 with a reference value of 100. All the players in the nursing care industry were surveyed for the index; 1,536 relatives of people in need of nursing care and people in need of nursing care themselves, but also nursing staff, doctors, pharmacists and representatives from industry, health insurance funds and local authorities were questioned. According to the survey, 56 per cent consider the working conditions to be worse than in 2017, when 51 per cent were still working. The workload, according to the analysis of the survey, is too high. 37 percent of the nursing staff surveyed believe that everyday nursing care has worsened as a result of legislative reforms in 2019. Many nursing staff complain that too little importance is attached to political action. Many respondents to the Index also believe that patient safety is insufficient and would like to see an expansion of the services provided by the nursing care insurance system. Kordula Schulz-Asche, the Green Party spokeswoman for the old people’s and nursing care policy department, is jumping to the side of the nursing staff and people involved in nursing care, because she too believes that the „turbo politics“ of the Federal Minister of Health will be heating the climate of the industry even more. The legal regulations would be the cause of the deterioration in everyday nursing care. She would also like to see an increase in the attractiveness of the nursing profession and an increase in funding in the nursing industry.

Source: Ärzteblatt