Feb 15, 2021 | EN, health policy
According to Andreas Westerfellhaus, the Federal Government’s representative for nursing, all players in the health care professions in the German health care system should be given more competencies and more responsibility in their respective fields. In...
Feb 15, 2021 | EN, general conditions, health policy
People with disabilities should be given special consideration and priority in Germany’s vaccination regulations, according to federal and state disability commissioners. These include, in particular, people who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, and hard of...
Feb 3, 2021 | EN, health policy, telematics, telemedicine
gematik, as the Gesellschaft für Telematikanwendungen der Gesundheitskarte mbH (Society for Telematics Applications of the Health Card), wants to fundamentally reform itself and, in the process, transform its architecture with the help of the new TI 2.0 so that...
Jan 28, 2021 | EN, health policy, medical aids
The cost of nursing aids for consumption, which can be found in product group 54 of the GKV’s list of aids, has risen in recent months due to the Corona pandemic. This means that a monthly flat rate of 40 euros is no longer sufficient to provide those in need of...
Jan 20, 2021 | EN, health policy
In Norway, 23 deaths have been recorded so far following the administration of Corona vaccines. However, Norwegian health authorities consider the number of incidents „not alarming,“ although relatively many elderly people have died following vaccination....
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...
