Health care: According to the report, planned health kiosks are not coming

That of the Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach

(SPD) planned so-called Health kiosks According to a media report, medically underserved rural areas and structurally weak neighborhoods in large cities should not come after all. Like that ARD capital studio reported that Lauterbach’s ministry has completely eliminated the health kiosks in a draft of the Health Care Strengthening Act. It can be assumed that the austerity pressure imposed by Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) motivated Lauterbach to do so.

Lauterbach had also defended the kiosks against criticism from social associations, pointing out that in one to two decades there would be a massive undersupply, particularly of general practitioners and psychotherapists. The health kiosks should offer a first, low-threshold point of contact for patients and be managed by nursing professionals.

Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus, parliamentary director of the FDP, described the health kiosks in the ARD

as an “inefficient dual structure with questionable benefits for care”. The FDP health politician said this Report from Berlininstead it is about improving basic medical care, especially in rural areas.