Dez 10, 2021 | EN, health policy
The prospective federal government of SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and FDP have specific new plans for the German healthcare system in the coming legislative period. However, there are still many unanswered questions as well as approval and criticism from the ranks of...
Dez 3, 2021 | EN, health economy, health policy
An international study on the health literacy of the population shows that health literacy has a lot of influence on health and is the adjusting screw for cost explosions in the health care system. The study involved 17 European countries, including Austria, Belgium,...
Nov 26, 2021 | COVID-19, EN, health policy
England could soon be in a state of emergency, as the British government has imposed deadlines for unvaccinated employees in senior citizen homes and nursing homes and at the NHS. Accordingly, nursing staff in old people’s and care homes had to have been...
Nov 18, 2021 | EN, health policy
Coalition negotiations are already underway in the German Bundestag, because the issue of „health and care“ is also urgent. Initial exploratory talks of the traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP have already ended with discussions on cornerstones...
Nov 4, 2021 | EN, health policy
A draft decree from the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) stipulates that the statutory health insurance (SHI) will receive an increase in the federal subsidy to the health fund of 14 billion euros instead of the seven billion euros that had been budgeted, in...
Okt 15, 2021 | EN, health policy, statutory health insurance
The statutory health insurance (SHI) funds, and in particular the board of directors of IKK gesund plus with its chairmen Hans-Jürgen Müller and Uwe Runge, complain about the financial uncertainty of the funds, which would have more planning security through an...