CSU on health and care

The CSU wants to preserve hospitals across Bavaria and develop them according to need, especially in rural areas. To do so, the state's annual investment is to grow to one billion euros.

The CSU wants to keep Bavaria's hospitals. Rural areas should also have good doctors and clinics. The state should spend one billion euros a year on hospitals. That is much more than today. There is extra money for emergency care.

The platform justifies the step with the high costs facing small rural hospitals in particular, due to new federal rules and growing competitive pressure. All those involved are to get help building structures that link outpatient and inpatient care. Emergency care is to receive 100 million euros over five years. The CSU also wants to prepare the health and care system, together with municipalities, for effects of climate change such as heat waves.

The CSU wants to create nearly 3,000 additional places to study medicine and attract doctors to rural areas. Maternity care close to home is to keep receiving 28 million euros a year.

The CSU wants to train more doctors. There should be almost 3,000 new places to study medicine. Doctors should also move to the countryside. The state pays money for this. Midwives and small maternity wards will keep getting money too.

New practices in rural areas are to be supported through funding programs and the rural doctor quota, and the scholarship program for medical students is to continue. To ensure emergency care everywhere, the CSU puts special weight on recruiting and training emergency physicians and paramedics. In maternity care, the annual funding for midwife services and smaller wards, the midwife bonus and the start-up package remain in place. University places for midwives will continue to be funded.

The CSU wants to fund 8,000 new care places by 2028 and continue the Landespflegegeld (state care allowance). More skilled workers are to come through better conditions and faster procedures for care workers from abroad.

The CSU wants more places in care homes. There should be 8,000 new places by 2028. Bavaria's care payment should stay. Care workers from other countries should be able to start work in Bavaria faster.

The state care allowance, which according to the platform exists only in Bavaria, is to be developed further. For the nursing profession, the CSU calls for appropriate pay and attractive working conditions. Together with care facilities, stand-in staff models and pools are to be set up, because the CSU sees temporary agency work only as a supplement. Fast-track procedures and funded workplace integration are planned for foreign care workers.

The CSU wants to broaden care for the dying, including at home and in nursing homes. It sees this as its answer to assisted suicide, which it rejects.

The CSU wants better support for dying people. This should also be possible at home and in care homes. The CSU is against helping people end their own lives.

The platform singles out work in palliative medicine and hospices as especially important. Care is to reach beyond palliative wards and inpatient hospices. The CSU calls this a matter of humanity. The seriously ill and the dying should feel well cared for.

The CSU rejects the federal government's planned legalization of drugs and calls it a wrong path. Bavaria is not to become a pilot region for cannabis.

The federal government wants to allow cannabis. The CSU is against that. Bavaria should not become a test area for cannabis. The CSU wants to stop this by every legal means.

The platform accuses the federal government of caring more about legalizing drugs than about the supply of medicines. The CSU announces that it will use every legal and practical means against a cannabis test region in Bavaria. In its view, drugs should remain socially condemned.