Waiting times for emergency situations: Spahn plans to the 112-Revolution

The Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) planned Reform of emergency care to a media report, according to shape. After Spahn had already been presented in mid-December 2018 basic features, there is now a draft law, reported the Newspapers of the Funke media group on Monday.

"Currently, the emergency departments of the hospitals are crowded to often, because the patients are such, which elsewhere is better helped könnte&quot be;, reasoned Spahn compared to the spark-Newspapers, the need for Reform. As a result, the waiting times for patients in urgent need of assistance in an emergency ambulance were "often lang". It was a "Reform, which is at the root ansetzt", the CDU-politician said. You require possibly even a Change in the basic law.

Report: Spahn plans to "Built-In Notfallzentren" Clinic and outpatient Doctors under one roof

The draft law, according to spark data to be switched are to be reached by the number 112 for the emergency services and the number 116 117 under the the date of service of the self-employed Doctors, in fact, together. There patients to get a first assessment of whether you can be helped in a clinic or in an outpatient physician at the best. The draft law speak of the "Central Lotsenfunktion" the emergency command and control centers, it said.

When patients went into the hospitals, should it nationwide "Built-In Notfallzentren" (INZ), which would be operated by the hospitals and the associations of accredited physicians together. Patients should be either immediately to the emergency room or outpatient treated sent. The emergency centres should the draft law, according to "at any time zugänglich" and "spatially in such a way in a hospital eingebunden" be that you of the patients "as the first point of contact in case of emergency werden&quot perceived;.

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