more and more patients seek the emergency room. From the perspective of the statutory health insurance no wonder. Evening and weekend surgeries are closed. The funds want to change that now.
A visit to the doctor requires and good planning: The office hours to find out, to set waiting time and a practice visit in the evening hours or on the weekend is usually not possible. That should change from the point of view of the Vice-Chairman of the Board of the peak Association of the statutory health insurance, Johann-Magnus Stackelberg, in the future.
He is bringing office hours “off-core hours” into the game: practices should also open in the evening or on the weekend. This work should not remain at a few Doctors to hang, appealed Stackelberg:
“diseases are not based on the favorite hours of resident Physicians.”
Hardly open practices on Saturday morning
according to A survey that was given to the Fund Association at the Forsa-Institut in order, shows that it is already under the week can be difficult to consult a doctor On Wednesday to have nationwide opened in an average of only 20 per cent of practices, between 14.00 and 17.00. On Friday, it will be even less. Office hours between 19.00 and 20.00 on offer on some days of the week, only ten percent of all practices and on weekends, the average of the Doctors who treat patients on a Saturday morning, drops, one to two percent.
“it is No wonder that more and more people houses, go to the emergency rooms of the sick,” warned Stackelberg. And also the SPD-health expert Karl Lauterbach suggests in an Interview with the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” in the notch:
A doctor on Wednesday? According to Karl Lauterbach was also on the Golf course opportunities.
“The one or the other doctor is seen Wednesday afternoon on the Golf course.”
“slap in the face” of the Doctors ‘
In the case of the medical associations themselves, the proposal, the work on the evening or the weekend to extend less good. The idea was “bold and impudent”, – was stated by the kassenärztliche bundesvereinigung (KBV). Their Chairman, Andreas streets, spoke of a “slap in the face” of the hospital Physicians. He stressed that a doctor is working on average 52 hours per week. Duty only 20 hours a week currently.
Argument, the KBV Board of management colleague Wolfgang Krombholz heads towards the Bavarian radio. And just because a practice is not open, it does not mean that the doctor will work. It must be sometime done, the bureaucracy, moreover, Krombholz also mentioned home visits as a time outside of the practice. There is also the question of where the money for the additional work to come to stay.
