What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on health and care?

The AfD wants to halt the 2025 hospital reform because it fears hospital closures, especially in rural areas. Hospitals should remain largely a public responsibility rather than being widely privatized.

The AfD wants to stop the 2025 hospital reform. It fears that rural hospitals will close. Hospitals should belong to the state. Companies should not run them for profit.

The AfD wants to attract doctors to rural and structurally weak areas with organizational and financial support. Owner-run pharmacies and rehab facilities should be preserved, and wholesalers should keep medicines in stock.

Rural areas lack doctors. The AfD wants to help doctors with money to open a practice there. Pharmacies and rehab clinics should stay. Wholesalers should store key medicines for two months.

The AfD wants better support for family caregivers and would align the Pflegegeld (care allowance) with what outpatient care services are paid. To tackle staff shortages it relies on better pay, less paperwork and more training. It demands strict checks for professionals from non-EU countries.

Many people care for relatives at home. The AfD wants to give them a higher care allowance. Nurses should earn more and have less paperwork. Doctors and nurses from outside the EU should take a test.

The AfD wants to abolish every vaccination mandate, citing the fundamental right to physical integrity. Decisions on medical treatment should rest with the individual alone. It also rejects any duty to donate organs.

The AfD wants to end every vaccine mandate. Each person should decide on their own treatment. Nobody should have to donate organs. Alternative healers should also be allowed to keep working.

The AfD wants a parliamentary committee of inquiry in the state parliament to examine COVID policy. In its view, many measures were unfounded, ineffective or harmful. People who suffered harm as a result should be compensated.

The AfD wants a close look at the COVID period. The state parliament should set up a committee for this. The AfD says many rules were wrong or harmful. People who were harmed should get money.

The AfD wants insured people to receive neutral information about the electronic patient record (ePA) after the fact and wants its usage options adapted to patients' needs. People who reject the ePA should be able to store emergency data directly on their health insurance card.

The electronic patient record stores data about medical treatment. The AfD says people were poorly informed about it. It wants neutral information for everyone. People who do not want the record should be able to store emergency data on their insurance card.

The CDU wants to standardize and connect the technology of the state's dispatch centers under a new concept. The on-call medical service and the dispatch centers are to hand over cases to each other digitally so that patients are directed more effectively.

The CDU wants to modernize emergency medical services. Dispatch centers should use the same technology. A dispatch center takes emergency calls and sends help. The on-call doctor service should be able to send data straight to the dispatch centers.

The CDU wants to secure medical care close to home across the state. To that end, more university places in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy are to be created and the rural doctor quota raised.

The CDU wants doctors to be nearby everywhere in the state. There should be more university places for medicine. More places should go to future rural doctors. Local pharmacies should also be strengthened.

The CDU commits to the dual system of hospital financing and wants to expand the state's investment funding. This is meant to secure basic and standard care with emergency departments across the state.

The CDU wants to give more money to hospitals. The state pays for buildings and equipment. Health insurers pay for day-to-day operations. This should mean good hospitals everywhere in the state.

The CDU supports the federal plan for family doctors to guide patients through the health system. In emergency care, it relies on integrated emergency centers that are to be reachable within a 30-minute drive.

The CDU wants family doctors to guide patients through the health system. Digital services should help with appointments. There should be emergency centers for urgent cases. Everyone should reach such a center in 30 minutes by car.

The CDU wants to make health professions more attractive through better working conditions and to expand training. Qualifications of foreign professionals in medicine and nursing are to be recognized faster and digitally.

The CDU wants more skilled workers in health and care. The work should pay better and be easier to plan. Qualifications from abroad should be recognized faster. Training at schools for health professions should be free of tuition.

The CDU wants to strengthen medical research in the state, especially on cardiovascular disease and cancer. Health data should be easier to share and to use for research, and a statewide biobank is to be set up.

The CDU wants more health research. The focus is on heart disease and cancer. Doctors and hospitals should share data more easily. A biobank should collect samples for research.

The CDU wants to equip the public health service with modern technology, digital networks and qualified staff. At the same time, the health system is to be better prepared for pandemics, disasters and security threats.

The CDU wants better public health offices. They should get modern technology and good staff. Then they can act fast in a crisis. Hospitals and doctors should also be ready for crises.

The CDU wants to press at the federal level for Baden-Württemberg to stop being disadvantaged in the financial equalization among health insurers. According to the platform, the state loses nearly one billion euros a year because of the regional factor.

Health insurers share money among each other. The CDU says Baden-Württemberg gets too little. Almost one billion euros are missing each year. The CDU wants the federal government to change that.

The CDU wants good long-term care to remain available close to home and affordable. To that end it is considering having the state resume funding investments by nursing homes, and it wants to give more relief to relatives who provide care at home.

The CDU wants good care close to home. Care should stay affordable. The state may pay for nursing home buildings again. People who care for relatives at home should get more help.

The CDU wants to make nursing more attractive through fair pay, binding staffing ratios and predictable schedules. Foreign nursing qualifications are to be recognized faster so that skilled workers from abroad can start working quickly.

The CDU wants better jobs for nursing staff. They should get fair pay. Work schedules should be reliable. Nurses from other countries should be able to work here sooner.

The CDU wants to keep rising out-of-pocket costs from overwhelming people who need care and their families. At the federal level it is pushing for long-term care insurance that stays stable over time and combines personal responsibility with solidarity.

Care costs a lot of money. People pay part of it themselves. The CDU wants this part to stay manageable. Care insurance should stay stable for a long time.

The Greens want new medical developments to reach patients more quickly. To that end, university hospitals, universities, research institutions and companies are to work together more closely.

The Greens want new medicine to reach sick people faster. Hospitals, researchers and companies should work together more closely. Heidelberg and Mannheim should become a top place for medical research.

The Greens rely on a strong public health system. They call on the federal government to fund hospital treatment reliably, and the state is to keep raising its investment funding for hospitals.

The Greens want good hospitals for everyone. The federal government should pay for treatment reliably. The state should give more money for buildings and equipment.

The Greens want training in health professions to be free of school fees. According to the program, the fees deter many young people from careers such as speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy, even though there is demand.

Some training courses in health care cost money. Physical therapy is one example. The Greens want to end these fees. Then more young people will take up this training.

The Greens want to push ahead with digitalization in health care and promote telemedicine. Family doctors' offices should be reachable and able to advise digitally, which is meant above all to strengthen care in rural areas.

The Greens want more digital services at the doctor's. Patients should also be able to talk to doctors by video. This helps people in the countryside most. But technology should not replace people.

The Greens want to strengthen professional nursing care through modernized training, new job profiles, more say for nurses and better working conditions. Family caregivers are to be relieved by more day-care and short-term care places. A „Pakt der Pflege“ (care pact) is meant to secure local care.

The Greens want to strengthen nursing care. Training should become more modern. Nurses should have more say. Many people care for relatives at home. They should get more help, for example through day care.

The Greens want to launch an initiative called „Hausärztliche Versorgung“ to close gaps in basic medical care. It includes a new quota for rural pediatricians, a municipal doctors' fund and better conditions in the practical year of medical school.

Rural areas often lack doctors. The Greens want to change that. There should be study places for future rural children's doctors. A fund should support new practices in the countryside. Medical students should get enough pay in their practical year.

The Greens want to expand research on sex- and gender-specific differences in medicine because, in their account, drugs and therapies are tested mainly on men. Trans and intersex people should be treated without discrimination. Midwifery care is to be secured across the state.

Many medicines are tested mostly on men. The Greens want more research on women's health. Doctors should learn to treat trans and intersex people fairly. There should be enough midwives everywhere.

The Greens want a health system that prevents illness rather than only reacting to it. To that end, a statewide prevention strategy is to be developed, school health professionals tested at more schools and the public health service developed further.

The Greens want people not to get sick in the first place. There should be a plan for the whole state. More schools should have health staff. The public health offices should also do more for prevention.

The Greens put prevention at the center of their drug and addiction policy. They want services where users can have the contents of drugs tested, and they want to expand health care for people who are addicted or at risk.

The Greens want to prevent addiction. People should be able to have drugs tested. Then they know what is in them. This should protect them from dangerous substances. People with an addiction should get good help.

The Greens want to secure the supply of basic medicines by promoting regional production of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Local pharmacies are to be strengthened so that supply stays close to where people live.

Sometimes important medicines are missing, such as fever syrup for children. The Greens want more medicines to be made in the region. Local pharmacies should also be strengthened.

The Greens want to close gaps in care for people with mental illness, especially in rural areas. Prevention should start early, with more school psychologists and more therapy places for children and young people. A strategy against loneliness is also to be developed.

Many people have mental illnesses. They often struggle to find help. The Greens want more therapy places, especially in the countryside. Schools should have more psychologists. Lonely people should get places to turn to.

The Greens want to renovate and build rescue stations, improve staffing and technology at dispatch centers and deploy community paramedics. The shorter response-time target is not to come at the expense of employees.

The Greens want to repair and build rescue stations. Dispatch centers take emergency calls. They should get more experts and shared software. Community paramedics should help with less serious cases. That gives rescue teams more time for real emergencies.

The Greens want to lay the groundwork for joint emergency care with Alsace and northwestern Switzerland. In health care more broadly, bureaucratic hurdles for staff and patients at the border are to be removed.

In an emergency, the border should not matter. Rescue services from three countries should train and help together. Doctors and nurses should find it easier to work in the neighboring country. Patients should be treated where it is fastest.

The SPD wants to raise state funding for hospital investment by 60 percent and plan hospitals so that basic hospital care is no more than a 30-minute drive away. It opposes closures it considers irresponsible. Outsourced hospital work is to be brought back in-house.

The SPD wants to spend more money on hospitals. Everyone should reach a hospital within 30 minutes by car. There should be maternity care everywhere in the state. Outsourced jobs should return to the hospitals.

The SPD wants to secure local outpatient medical care and make filling vacant statutory-insurance physician positions a top priority. The physicians' on-call service is to be reachable within a 30-minute drive everywhere. Urgent care practices threatened with closure in 2025 are to be kept or reopened.

The SPD wants more doctors in local areas. The on-call doctor service should be 30 minutes away by car at most. Threatened urgent care practices should stay open or reopen. A foundation should support doctors' offices.

The SPD wants people with mental illness to get outpatient or inpatient treatment faster. Local services and community psychiatry are to be strengthened. For mentally ill people who pose a danger, it supports court-ordered outpatient treatment.

People with mental illness often wait a long time for help. The SPD wants to make this wait shorter. There should be more help close to home. Some ill people are a danger to others. For them, treatment with medication could be ordered.

The SPD wants to promote prevention and health education in municipalities, daycare centers and schools. The public health service is to be reoriented and given more staff. In socially disadvantaged areas, health kiosks are to be set up as easily accessible points of contact.

The SPD wants to do more for prevention. Schools should have first aiders. Public health offices should get more staff. Poorer neighborhoods should get health kiosks. People can get advice there on illness and care.

The SPD wants to create 500 additional medical school places through the rural doctors program and abolish tuition fees for training in the therapy professions. Skilled and assistant staff for health care and nursing are to be actively recruited, including abroad. Foreign professional qualifications are to be recognized free of charge and faster.

The SPD wants 500 new places to study medicine. People training for therapy jobs should no longer pay school fees. The state should bring in care workers from other countries. Foreign qualifications should be accepted quickly and at no cost.

The SPD wants to pay family caregivers a salary that is subject to social insurance contributions. Residents' own share of costs in nursing homes and assisted shared housing is to fall, with the state again funding investment costs. Home care, day care, short-term care and hospices are to be expanded.

Many people care for relatives at home. The SPD wants to pay them a salary for this. Care in a nursing home should cost residents less. The state should give money to nursing homes for this. There should be more hospices.

The SPD wants better funding for addiction prevention and counseling, especially for young people. People with addictions are to receive health care, including clean equipment, drug analysis and supervised consumption rooms. According to the program, the aim is less drug use without punishing users.

The SPD wants more money for addiction counseling. Young people in particular should get help. People who use drugs should be able to have them tested. There should be rooms for safer drug use. Smoke should not bother anyone outside restaurants.

The SPD wants gynecological care close to home without long waits and reliably funded maternity care. Abortions are to be free of charge and available within reasonable distance everywhere in the state. The party bases this on women's right to self-determination.

Women should find good gynecologists close to home. Midwives and birth centers should get more support. An abortion should cost nothing. It should be possible everywhere in the state. Counseling should also be offered online.