According to the Reports about defective medical products was convened by the Minister Spahn extra a Federal-Länder working group to advise about the consequences. But see, according to NDR, WDR and “SZ” no need for action.
at the end of November last year, NDR, WDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung” together with 250 journalists worldwide, the “implant files”, a series of Reports, which show how lax the licensing of medical products is, and how often patients by inadequately-tested implants damage.
Minister of health, Jens Spahn was still on the day of release to inform that his Ministry “will take these reports very seriously” and promised Changes. More than three months later, not much of this project left.
Jens Spahn, had used a Federal-Länder working group to examine the allegations.
Only a previously-planned implants, the tab is now on the way. In this Register should be collected only patients with endoprostheses (hip and knee joints), and breast implants. The advantage: With the help of the register may be used to identify which implants prove to be defective after they have been implanted patients.
Register by 2021 – but patients without access
in addition, you can inform in the future, all patients who have received an implant already being used. This is not yet possible. The Register is supposed to go in July 2021, at the Start, such as the Federal health notifies the Ministry on request. In principle, such a Register is a progress. The “action Alliance patient safety”, however, is critical that Doctors and patients should not be able to the data of the register access, but only authorities and research institutions.
While everyone buying a car in the ADAC breakdown statistics could look to see which defects have a vehicle that will concealed in implants, even the Doctors, criticised the coalition for action. On request, the health shall notify the Ministry: “What information will be published, for example, in the activity report of the register to each of the implants is in the Detail.”