Jul 5, 2021 | care, EN, law
From September 2022, the nursing staff receives more pay, as 50 percent of the 1.2 million employees in this sector are still paid below the collectively agreed rate. The poor pay of nursing staff in inpatient facilities leads to a nursing shortage that is becoming...
Jul 5, 2021 | EN, law, wound care
Around 400 modern and innovative wound care products, including silver-containing wound dressings for patients with diabetic foot syndrome and polihexanide (PHMB)-containing dressings against pathogenic germs, were classified as „other products for wound...
Apr 15, 2021 | EN, health policy, law, wound care
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and his ministry are currently planning a nursing reform law that envisages a so-called blanket order granting nursing professionals more competence and personal responsibility. The Ärzte-Zeitung already has a corresponding paper...
Nov 18, 2020 | EN, law, pharmacy
The German government plans to distribute FFP2 protective masks at a reduced price to risk groups in December by means of an emergency law. Extra federal funds will be made available to support the masks financially. Distributors of the protective masks are thus...
Okt 29, 2020 | Digitalization, law
With a new digitization law, the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) under the leadership of Jens Spahn wants to further develop the telematics infrastructure (TI) in a number of important key points, so that the health care of patients is better equipped, even in the...
Okt 8, 2020 | company news @en, EN, law
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn plans to amend the law to strengthen local pharmacies (VOASG) to avoid bottlenecks with parenteral drugs. In the future, it should be possible to produce and dispense different pharmacies among themselves, even between hospital and...
