"Unplanned Reduction Measures": Hospital Society Expects Hospital Bankruptcy After Implementation of Reforms
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The Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft fears losses of jobs in the industry. The reason is planned savings of the black and red government.
The Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft paints a gloomy scenario: If the austerity package of Health Minister Warken comes in its present form, a wave of bankruptcy and dismissals at German hospitals threatens.
With pre-emptive flat-rates instead of case flat-rates, more specialization and hard savings, the federal government wants to remodel the health care system. However, the Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft raises the alarm: after the implementation of the reforms, many hospitals are threatened by the economic boom.
Germany's hospitals are already struggling with costs, staff shortages and bureaucracy. If Warken's savings package comes as planned, more than 100,000 jobs could be lost according to the hospital company's assessment.This post Head of the Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft Every second clinic will go bankrupt due to Warken's plans was published on JUNGE FREIHEIT.
The German Hospital Federation is warning of massive consequences from the planned austerity package: Up to 140,000 jobs could be lost. According to a study, almost half of all hospitals could be at risk by 2030. The industry anticipates a wave of bankruptcies and is demanding changes.
The German Hospital Federation (DKG) is warning of a wave of bankruptcies and massive job losses in the sector should Health Minister Nina Warken's (CDU) austerity package be adopted unchanged. A recent study concludes that hospitals would have to lay off ten percent of their total staff in this scenario, federation head Gerald Gaß told the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (RND). This would affect approximately 140,000 employees. Experts predict…
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