DIVI registry: patients in Covid 19 intensive care beds increasingly younger

März 26, 2021 | care, COVID-19, EN

An evaluation of the data from the registry of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) concludes that Covid 19 patients in intensive care units are becoming younger and younger because many older, vulnerable...

Many countries complain about a shortage of (skilled) nursing staff

März 22, 2021 | care, EN

There is a nursing shortage in healthcare worldwide. At the beginning of 2020, there was a shortage of six million nurses around the world. By 2030, another four million workers will retire due to age. According to a report by the World Confederation of Nurses (ICN),...

How important is corporate governance for the care industry?

Jan. 14, 2021 | care, EN

In a recent white paper, Dr. Lutz Michel and Prof. Dr. Marc Steffen Rapp examine the status of corporate governance in the care industry. The two market experts argue that, especially in times of COVID-19, residents and employees of care facilities are particularly in...

CSU parliamentary group wants to avert nursing crisis and reward prospective nurses

Jan. 14, 2021 | care, EN, health policy

The CSU members of the Bundestag have just decided in Berlin that they will push for some new achievements in the care of the elderly and sick. Accordingly, the CSU paper states that they will lobby for a so-called new entrant premium of 5,000 euros. New care workers...

Criticism of the left-wing faction in the Bundestag on the rejection of applications for care services

Nov. 18, 2020 | care, EN

From the parliamentary group „the left ones“ in the Bundestag much criticism comes after inquiry, how many first applications for care achievements in Germany by the care insurance companies were rejected. According to the study, in 2019 benefits were not...

New regulation of non-hospital intensive care and its consequences

Sep. 17, 2020 | care, law, statutory health insurance

Germany is facing a dilemma in the field of out-of-hospital intensive care because at present it looks as if health insurance companies will no longer have to cover the costs of basic care for the seriously ill. Instead, basic care services will probably have to be...