CDU on health and care

The CDU wants to expand the training of physicians and pharmacists, mainly to improve care in rural regions. To that end, the medical program in Pécs, Hungary, is to continue, the MEDiC program in Chemnitz is to be strengthened, and pharmacy training in Leipzig is to be expanded.

Rural areas do not have enough doctors. So the CDU wants to train more doctors. Young people from Saxony should keep studying medicine in Hungary. Medical studies in Chemnitz should also get better. More pharmacists should be trained in Leipzig.

The MEDiC project in Chemnitz is to get new teaching facilities. The CDU is considering training dentists there as well. More physicians for rural areas are to be gained through cross-border cooperation. For future pharmacists, the party is also looking at closer cooperation with Hungary.

The CDU wants to train more medical professionals and encourage them to open their own practices, including in rural areas. It plans more university places, quotas and residency networks, and faster recognition of professional qualifications.

The CDU wants more doctors in Saxony. There should be more places to study medicine. More places should go to future country doctors. Skilled workers from abroad should be allowed to work sooner.

The plan calls for more university places in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy and twice as many places in the physician assistant program. The rural doctor quota is to rise, a similar quota is to be created for dentists and pharmacists, and scholarships will continue. A so-called "Niederlassungsfahrschule" (a kind of driving school for setting up a practice) would teach future doctors what they need to run their own practice. Residency training networks are to be extended to more specialties. Medical and nursing staff from Germany and abroad should have their qualifications recognized within one month. The CDU also wants to upgrade the role of medical assistants, delegate suitable tasks from doctors and review documentation requirements.

The CDU wants to keep all hospital sites in the state and treats investment funding as a duty of the state government. It demands a say in the federal hospital reform and says Saxony will pass its own reform if necessary.

The CDU wants to keep all hospitals in Saxony. The state should pay for buildings and equipment. Saxony wants a say in the federal reform. Health centers should help in rural areas.

The state is to help hospitals develop their outpatient and inpatient services. A program called "Krankenhaus+" would support the rollout of the hospital reform. If no federal reform is passed, the CDU wants Saxony to act on its own, following the example of North Rhine-Westphalia. Regional health centers are meant to secure care in rural areas, and a regulation designating them is to come quickly. Treatment that can be given on an outpatient basis should be, and the association of statutory health insurance physicians is to be held more firmly to its duty to ensure care. The CDU also wants to fund pilot projects using digital tools and AI.

The CDU wants to keep local pharmacies throughout the state and give them more tasks. It also wants Saxony to remain a location for the pharmaceutical industry.

The CDU wants to keep pharmacies all over Saxony. Pharmacies should give more vaccinations. They should also offer more other services. More medicines should be made in central Germany.

Pharmacies are to offer more pharmaceutical services and give more vaccinations. Together with Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the CDU wants to draw up a strategy to increase drug production in central Germany. A quota of university places for future pharmacists is also planned.

The CDU wants to expand prevention, health education and the public health service. According to the program, illnesses should be prevented or detected earlier, before they become a problem.

The CDU wants to do more for prevention. People should learn more about healthy food and exercise. All children should get dental check-ups in groups. The public health offices should become stronger.

Knowledge about nutrition, exercise and relaxation is to be taught through daycare centers, schools, adult education and health insurers. Group dental prevention is to be open to all children in schools, kindergartens and home-based daycare. The "Impftisch" (a vaccination roundtable) will continue, and vaccination goals are to be set clearly in dialogue with those involved. Health promotion is to become a fixed part of the public health service's work in every region of Saxony. The CDU also wants to keep funding the suicide prevention network HEYLiFE, with a focus on children and young people.

The CDU wants fast help to be available everywhere in Saxony in an emergency. To that end, the emergency number 112 and the on-call doctor service 116 117 are to be handled by one joint dispatch center.

The CDU wants fast help in an emergency. The emergency number 112 and the number 116 117 should work together. There should be one shared call center. School students should learn how to revive a person.

The CDU wants to examine the use of community paramedics, who would respond when a call appears to involve neither an emergency nor a need for transport. It also wants to look at other local first-aid systems and learn from other German states. More defibrillators are to be installed in public places, along with training in how to use them. Elementary and secondary schools are to offer structured resuscitation lessons.

The CDU regards the legalization of cannabis as a major health risk and wants it corrected as quickly as possible. It intends to push for this at the federal level while strengthening addiction services.

Since 2024, cannabis has been partly legal in Germany. The CDU thinks this is dangerous. It wants to change the law back quickly. It also wants more help for people with addiction.

The program calls the legalization passed by the federal coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP a mistake. The CDU wants to keep pressing for a correction at the federal level. Addiction services are to be strengthened and geared more toward families. Cooperation with the Saxon state association for health promotion on addiction and health prevention will continue.

The CDU wants to press at the federal level for a fundamental reform of long-term care insurance and to break down the divide between care sectors. In Saxony, families who care for relatives are to get relief, for example through more day-care and short-term care places.

The CDU wants to rebuild long-term care insurance. It will push for this at the federal level. Families care for many people at home. They should get more help, such as more short-term care places.

The boundaries between care sectors are to be replaced by one overarching payment model. Wherever a person lives, the care insurer would cover basic care and support, and the health insurer would cover medical treatment care. Relatives are to get training, care providers are to be better networked, and insurance benefits are to become better known. People with dementia and their relatives are to get more support and better-suited housing and care arrangements. The CDU wants to openly examine setting up a chamber of nursing, reform training for nursing assistants and make more use of community health nurses.

The CDU wants people at the end of life to receive good medical and nursing care. Home hospice services and palliative teams are to be strengthened, and inpatient hospices are to be evenly spread between cities and rural areas.

The CDU wants good help for dying people. Hospice services should get more support. A hospice cares for people at the end of life. Families who lose a child should also get support.

Volunteers in hospice services should continue to be well trained. Outpatient and inpatient medical and nursing services are to work closely together so that people can die with dignity. Above all, the CDU wants to strengthen mobile palliative teams that support families at home. Families who have lost a child or teenager are to be accompanied in the first weeks, with a framework for volunteer grief companions.