Grüne on health and care

The Greens want to keep the state's hospitals as places for health and emergency care. To do so, they back state-funded Sicherstellungszuschläge (supplements to keep essential hospitals running) and returning hospitals to municipal ownership. Obstetrics and pediatrics are to get special protection.

The Greens want to keep the hospitals in the state. The state should pay money for this. Towns and counties should be able to take hospitals back. Birth care and children's medicine should also stay secure.

The platform wants to carry out the federal hospital reform in the state so that inpatient treatment remains high in quality and within reach, supplemented by outpatient and partly outpatient services. For rural regions, the platform notes a shortage of obstetric and pediatric services. Expanding and securing these structures is meant to ensure reliable care for pregnant women, newborns and children.

The Greens want to fund municipal health centers and municipal Medizinische Versorgungszentren (MVZ, medical care centers) to secure care close to home. Care in rural and economically weak areas is thereby meant to exist independently of private investors.

The Greens want to fund health centers owned by towns and communities. Several doctors work together there. This way there should be doctors in the countryside too. Care should not depend on private investors.

Plans include a state funding program, an ideas competition and networking of existing projects. The centers are meant to offer young doctors attractive jobs and advance cooperation between physicians and other health professions. A further state program is to fund barrier-free conversion and new construction of practices, health centers and hospitals.

The Greens want to guarantee training without school fees and with pay in all health and nursing professions. In addition, these professions are to become more academic, specialists are to be attracted to rural regions, and opt-out contracts at hospitals are to be eliminated.

The Greens want to win more skilled workers for health and nursing. Training should cost no school fees. Trainees should get paid. There should also be more specialist doctors in the countryside.

Making nursing and health professions more academic is meant to professionalize them and let them take on more tasks so far reserved for doctors. For specialists in rural areas, the platform names incentives such as money, good working conditions and career development. Opt-out contracts, under which hospital doctors agree to longer working hours, are to disappear at state-owned and municipal hospitals through a new rule. At the federal level, the party wants to push for maternity protection for self-employed female doctors.

The Greens want to guarantee access to abortion throughout the state. State-owned hospitals are to perform abortions and teach them in training. At the federal level, the party is pushing to remove Section 218 from the criminal code.

The Greens want women everywhere in the state to be able to end a pregnancy. State hospitals should offer and teach this. Abortion should no longer be in the criminal code. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level.

Pregnancy counseling centers are to be fully funded, with no contribution of their own required from the providers. Willingness to perform abortions is to play a role when filling posts at state hospitals. Family doctors are to be able to get approval for counseling and medication abortions as in other states, and curricula for medical school and specialist training are to be revised. All hospitals are also to join the "Netzwerk Evidence," which secures evidence anonymously after sexual violence.

The Greens want to markedly improve care for neurodivergent people, such as those with autism or ADHD, by building a statewide digital coordination network with a central registration portal. People are also to get faster access to psychotherapy, prevention and crisis help.

The Greens want to help people with autism or ADHD better. An online portal should make it easier to find diagnosis and therapy. People with mental health problems should also get help faster. For this there should be more therapy places.

The platform describes a shortage of specialized diagnostic services and support. The network is to link hospitals, psychiatric outpatient clinics and specialist practices; the portal, modeled on Berlin's, is to prevent multiple registrations. Child and adolescent psychiatry and adult psychiatry are to work together in one shared model. For mental health, the platform also provides for suicide prevention, education to reduce stigma, and additional insurance-funded practice slots, including for child and adolescent psychotherapy.

The Greens want to modernize health care structures: with a state center for telemedicine and telecare, municipal needs planning for nursing care places, and a relaunch of the anonymous health voucher for people without insurance.

The Greens want to found a center for telemedicine. Telemedicine means treatment by phone or internet. Municipalities should plan how many care places are needed. People without health insurance should still be able to see a doctor.

Needs planning for nursing care places is to be done systematically by municipalities, similar to daycare planning. The "Clearingstelle und anonymer Krankenschein" project (clearing office and anonymous health voucher) is aimed at people who lack coverage because of unpaid contributions, homelessness or no residence permit; the platform regards basic care as a human right. Regional and nonprofit providers are to be strengthened through funding, advice and help with recruiting staff. The AIDS service organizations are to get reliable funding, and the state's health goals are to be reviewed and redrafted.

The Greens want reliable funding for municipal addiction counseling centers and permanent state funding for the digital counseling service DigiSucht_LSA. Counseling is to focus more on online, media and gaming addiction.

The Greens want to pay reliably for addiction counseling centers. The online service DigiSucht_LSA should get lasting money from the state. Counseling should help more with addiction to the internet and video games.

According to the platform, funding for DigiSucht_LSA ends at the close of 2026; the party considers the anonymous, free, around-the-clock service indispensable. The state office for addiction issues is to be financially secured and developed for new needs. Close cooperation with youth and youth media protection bodies is planned. Secondary schools are to deal more with computer and video games across subjects.

The Greens call for a guaranteed right to a single room in residential care facilities. They justify this with residents' self-determination and personal rights.

The Greens want this: Everyone in a nursing home has a right to their own room. Shared rooms are only allowed if people want them. Everyone should be able to furnish their own room.

Double rooms would only be allowed when those affected expressly ask for them, for example married couples. Residents are to decide themselves how to furnish the room with their own furniture and keepsakes. In addition, heat protection is to be ensured in all facilities.

The Greens want to sharply reduce residents' out-of-pocket costs in nursing homes by having the state cover investment and training costs. They also back a solidarity-based care guarantee in the form of full long-term care insurance so that needing care does not lead to poverty.

A place in a nursing home costs a lot of money. The Greens want residents to pay less themselves. The state should cover part of the costs. An insurance plan should pay for all care costs.

According to the platform, out-of-pocket costs are about €2,400 to €2,700, above the state's average pension of roughly €1,500. The state is therefore to pay the investment and training costs currently included in residents' share. Full care insurance is meant to ensure people get adequate care regardless of their income or assets.

The Greens want to create a self-governing body for nursing staff by law. It would shape professional and continuing-education rules itself and give nursing more weight in politics and self-administration.

The Greens want to create a body that speaks for nurses. Nurses should decide the rules for their job themselves. Politicians should listen to them more.

The aim is to further professionalize nursing and put it on an equal footing with physicians. Membership would be voluntary, combined with a duty to register. This is meant to yield reliable data on the number and qualifications of nursing staff for steering training and continuing education.