Grüne on health and care

The Greens want health insurers to pay for contraceptives in a socially fair way and abortions to be available close to home. Fertility treatment is to get more support, regardless of partnership status and also for lesbian couples and trans, intersex and nonbinary people.

The Greens want health insurance to pay for birth control. Women should be able to end a pregnancy close to home. People who want children should get more money for treatment. This should also apply to singles and lesbian couples. Schools should offer free period products.

The stronger support for fertility treatment, including financial help, is to apply up to age 45. The platform backs self-determined childbirth and wants to strengthen reproductive medicine in Saxony. Period products are to be available free of charge in public buildings and schools. For men, the platform plans easily accessible, targeted health services, with the aim of narrowing the gap in life expectancy between the sexes.

The Greens want to secure local medical care through regional health centers, more practice assistants and incentives for family doctors in rural areas. They also want more training and university places and more responsibilities for non-physician health professions.

The Greens want more family doctors in rural areas. Money should serve as an incentive. There should be regional health centers. More people should be able to train for a health job. Pharmacies and therapists should get more tasks.

The plan includes more care assistants in family practices (Verah) and non-physician practice assistants (NÄPA), plus easier lateral entry from other specialties into general practice. Non-profit medical care centers (MVZ) in underserved regions would be funded, and counties would be involved in assessing needs. An expansion of medical studies in Chemnitz would be examined. Midwife-led delivery rooms, family midwives, dental health, geriatric care and barrier-free practices would be supported. The Greens also call for a state health office and rely on more digitalization.

The Greens demand that the state at least double its investment funding for hospitals. According to the platform, this would let Saxony meet its legal obligations and cover the hospitals' investment needs in full for the first time.

Hospitals need money for buildings and equipment. This money comes from the state of Saxony. The Greens want to pay at least twice as much. Small local hospitals should stay.

The hospital landscape would be developed so that complex and specialized treatments are concentrated at well-equipped centers. Small sites would be kept for basic and standard care. Integrated emergency care systems and high quality standards for the care of premature babies are also planned. The Greens want money to stay within the health system. Facilities that operate in a resource-saving way under the "Green Clinic" concept would be supported.

The Greens want to expand counseling close to where people live and better connect social work, psychiatry and therapy. An initiative is meant to remove stigma from mental health and build knowledge about it.

More and more people have mental illnesses. The Greens want more counseling nearby. Helpers should work together better. A campaign should show that people can talk openly about mental problems.

The platform sees psychosocial and psychiatric care as part of prevention. The Greens expect more mental illness because of several crises. Training, additional research, pooled knowledge and adapted treatment services are meant to prepare for this. The initiative addresses schools, workplaces and the public.

The Greens call for a dedicated care law for Saxony that addresses quality, local structures and needs planning. They also support a nursing chamber as the self-governing body of care workers and want better working conditions in home care.

The Greens want a separate care law for Saxony. Care workers should get their own representation. It is called a nursing chamber. Work in care should get better. Relatives who provide care should get help.

Intergenerational assisted living, care support centers and new short-term care facilities would be funded, and oversight of care homes would become more transparent. Care workers would decide more independently and use software for shift and route planning. Trained staff on parental leave would be offered return-to-work coaching, and those who left the profession would be recruited back. Care by relatives and neighbors and the integration of people with a migration background into health professions would be supported. Social start-ups would also receive support.

The Greens want to help people with addiction quickly and without stigma, relying on prevention, youth protection and help rather than punishment. Drug consumption rooms would be expanded, drug checking piloted and addiction services adequately equipped in all regions.

The Greens want to help addicted people instead of punishing them. There should be more rooms where people can take drugs more safely. People should be able to test drugs for dangerous substances. Ads for alcohol and nicotine should be banned in public places.

Pilot projects for drug checking, including mobile services, are meant to lower health risks and raise awareness of dangers. More inpatient therapy places for crystal meth users are planned, especially for parents with children and in prisons. Prisons would employ more psychological, medical and therapeutic staff. Police would get better training and equipment for addiction prevention. To protect children and young people, the Greens call for a comprehensive ban on alcohol and nicotine advertising in public places.