What do the parties in Bavaria say on health and care?

The AfD wants basic medical care to remain organized by municipalities and to be guaranteed everywhere in Bavaria. Hospital funding should follow need, and the platform rejects profit-seeking in this area. Smaller hospital sites in particular are to receive investment.

The AfD wants to keep hospitals all over Bavaria. There should be emergency care and maternity wards everywhere. Hospitals should get as much money as they need. Nobody should make a profit from basic care.

The AfD wants to replace the system of flat per-case payments (Fallpauschalen) with payment for each individual service. In the platform's view, the flat fees distort care and cause long waiting times. It also calls for more physician practice slots and a different route into medical school.

Today hospitals get a fixed amount for each case. The AfD wants to change that. Each single service should be paid for. There should also be more doctors' offices. Young people without top grades should be able to study medicine.

The AfD demands a legal and scientific review of the Bavarian state government's COVID measures, which it considers disproportionate and partly unconstitutional. Vaccinations with mRNA products are to be suspended. Excess mortality and vaccine injuries are to be investigated openly.

The AfD thinks the COVID rules in Bavaria were wrong. Courts and researchers should examine these rules. The AfD wants to stop mRNA vaccinations. There should be offices that help people with vaccine injuries.

The AfD rejects any vaccine mandate and wants to repeal the measles vaccination requirement, which it says was introduced without sufficient medical evidence. Parents should decide for themselves whether to vaccinate their children. People who refuse a vaccination should not be put at a disadvantage.

The AfD does not want any duty to get vaccinated. The measles vaccine duty should end. Parents should decide for their own child. Nobody should be treated worse for refusing a vaccine.

The AfD supports digitalization in administration and service but rejects central storage of sensitive health data because it fears misuse. Bavaria should not back the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The platform also rejects a central vaccination registry.

The AfD wants to protect health data. Nobody should collect this data in one central place. That applies to Germany and to the EU. The AfD also does not want a central vaccination registry.

The AfD considers the medical use of cannabis sensible and worth promoting but is critical of an uncontrolled release. Its stated reason is that the content of THC and other substances cannot be regulated. It also calls for a scientific reassessment of the plant.

The AfD wants to allow and support cannabis as medicine. It is critical of making cannabis freely available to everyone. Researchers should assess the plant and its dangers again. The EU should stay out of this question.

The AfD wants to relieve family caregivers with paid care leave that resembles parental leave and protects their job. The financial compensation should approach the pay of professional care staff. The platform also calls for a major care reform and a more attractive nursing profession.

Many people care for relatives at home. The AfD wants to give them care leave. During this time they get money and keep their job. The care profession should also get better.

The AfD wants the limits for cell phone radiation reviewed and pushed lower. Rules on toxic residues in the environment are also to become stricter. The platform justifies this with protecting health from influences that individuals cannot control.

The AfD wants stricter limits for cell phone radiation. It also wants stricter rules for toxic substances in the environment. The party says that people's health matters most. Independent researchers should study the risks.

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 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.

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 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 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 Free Voters want to keep local pharmacies across the state, with online mail order only as a supplement. More medicines are to be produced and stockpiled in Germany and Europe.

The Free Voters want to keep pharmacies close to home. Online shipping should not replace them. More medicines should be made in Germany and Europe. That way there should always be enough medicine.

The Free Voters want to keep hospitals, emergency rooms and maternity wards across the whole state and reject the federal government's hospital plans, which they call a clear-cutting. Flat-rate case payments are to be abolished, and more medical school places are to counter the shortage of doctors.

The Free Voters want to keep hospitals everywhere in Bavaria. Small hospitals should stay too. The federal government should provide enough money. There should be more places to study medicine. That way rural areas should have enough doctors too.

The Free Voters want to improve long-term care significantly, give family caregivers more support and set up an independent professional body for care workers. A mandatory year of community service for everyone is also listed among the care goals.

The Free Voters want to improve care. People who care for relatives at home should get more help and money. Care homes should have more staff. Everyone should have to work for society for one year.

The Greens want to guarantee enough midwives, obstetricians and pediatricians everywhere in Bavaria. Daycare centers, after-school care and schools would offer more exercise, psychosocial support and state-subsidized healthy meals. The party argues that a healthy lifestyle learned in childhood usually lasts into adulthood.

The Greens want children to grow up healthy. There should be enough midwives and children's doctors everywhere. Daycare and school should offer more sports. The state pays part of the cost for healthy food there.

The Greens want to anchor health promotion and prevention across all policy areas and make them accessible to everyone regardless of income or disability. Municipal public health offices would get more money, more staff and better digital tools. Municipalities would also receive help with heat action plans.

The Greens want to keep people from getting sick in the first place. Everyone should have access to preventive care. Public health offices should get more money and more staff. Towns should make plans for extreme heat. The state should advise and fund them.

The Greens want comprehensive, high-quality health care throughout Bavaria, especially in rural areas. Needs would be assessed across sectors, more licensed slots for specialists treating publicly insured patients would be created, and municipal health and care centers would be supported.

In rural areas, the doctor is often far away. The Greens want good care everywhere in Bavaria. There should be more places for specialist doctors who treat publicly insured patients. Towns should be able to set up their own health centers. Doctors, hospitals and care services should work together better.

The Greens want everyone in Bavaria to be able to get to a suitable hospital within half an hour in an emergency or when labor begins. They oppose further hospital privatizations. Telemedicine is meant to cut long trips and waiting times.

The Greens want hospitals close to people. In an emergency, the trip should take 30 minutes at most. The same goes for giving birth. Hospitals should no longer be sold to private companies. Doctors should also be able to advise by video.

The Greens want to merge the dispatch centers of the on-call medical service and the emergency number across Bavaria so that callers get to the right place faster. Emergency medical services are to be organized by a single provider structure, become more digital and be expanded where needed. The platform says this secures quality and eases the load on crews.

The Greens want to improve emergency medical services. The numbers 112 and 116117 should work closely together. That way people get the right help faster. Crews should work more with computers. Students should practice first aid every year.

The Greens want to give nurses, midwives, therapists and medical assistants more tasks and responsibility in patient care. Training and university places are to be matched to actual need and increased. The platform points to weaknesses exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Greens want to strengthen health care jobs. Nurses, midwives and therapists should be allowed to decide more on their own. There should be more places for training and study. People training as therapists should get paid for it.

The Greens want to expand home care as well as day, night and short-term care, which is also meant to relieve family caregivers. Nursing is to become more attractive through more staff, better pay and broader powers. The Vereinigung der Pflegenden in Bayern (Bavarian nurses' association) would be turned into a nursing chamber.

The Greens want more care services. For example, care at home or care for a short time. This also helps family members who give care. Nurses should earn more money. There should be more nurses. Nurses should get their own chamber. A chamber speaks for a profession.

The Greens want people in a mental health crisis to get help quickly and close to home. To that end, more therapy slots would be created and competence centers set up as a first point of contact. The platform calls waiting for months unacceptable.

The Greens want better help for people with mental illness. Nobody should wait months for therapy. So there should be more therapy slots. New centers should show where a slot is free. Refugee children should get special help if they need it.

The Greens want to improve midwifery care with a funding program of 6 million euros a year and with midwife-led delivery rooms. Medicine should also take more account of differences between the sexes, including through a university chair for gender medicine. The platform argues that illnesses are otherwise detected later.

The Greens want to give midwives more financial support. Midwives help with births. There should be delivery rooms led by midwives. Women should be able to choose where they give birth. Medicine should pay more attention to women and men. Illnesses often show up differently in them.

The Greens want women to be able to have an abortion close to where they live and plan a statewide care concept for this. Young people and recipients of social benefits would get contraceptives free of charge. State funding for fertility treatment would be open to all couples.

The Greens want women to be able to end a pregnancy near their home. There should be a plan for all of Bavaria. Young people should get birth control for free. So should people who receive social benefits. All couples should get help with fertility treatment.

The Greens want a drug policy built on youth protection, education, prevention and care. Municipalities would be allowed to set up supervised drug consumption rooms, and drug checking would be introduced in Bavaria. The amount of cannabis for personal use that goes unpunished would rise to 15 grams.

The Greens want more education and help on drugs. Cities should be allowed to set up rooms for safer drug use. People should be able to have their drugs tested for dangerous substances. People with a little cannabis for themselves should not be punished. The limit should be 15 grams.

The Greens want to establish care support centers with advice services in every county to relieve people caring for relatives. They also want enough places in residential and home care in all municipalities.

Many people care for their relatives themselves. Often these are women. The Greens want to help them. Every county should have an advice center for care. There should also be enough care places everywhere.

The Greens want to create more counseling centers for mental health and push for more therapeutic professionals. Every school is to have social and youth workers so that overload is spotted early.

The Greens want more help for mental health. There should be more counseling centers. There should also be more therapists and doctors for this. Social workers should work at every school. They should notice early when a child is overwhelmed.

The SPD wants to increase state funding for hospitals to about one billion euros and fund nursing homes better. Pediatric care and obstetrics are to be financed according to medical need.

The SPD wants to give hospitals more money. The state should pay about one billion euros. Nursing homes should also get enough money. The same goes for children's medicine and for births.

The SPD wants to use the hospital reform to reduce the weight of per-case flat rates and secure care across the whole state. Small municipal hospitals in rural areas and maternity wards are to be kept. To that end, it seeks statewide health planning across all areas of care.

The SPD wants to keep hospitals all over Bavaria. Small rural hospitals should get help. Maternity wards and midwives should be available everywhere. Today hospitals mostly get a fixed sum per treatment. That should matter less.

The SPD wants to phase out temporary agency work in nursing care completely and achieve collective bargaining coverage across the health and care sector. Binding staffing rules and better training conditions are meant to ease the load on workers. The platform cites staff shortages and chronic overwork as the reason.

The SPD wants to end temp work in nursing care. In temp work, an agency lends workers to other employers. All workers should get equal pay. There should be fixed rules on how many staff are needed. Training should get better.

The SPD wants to lower costs for people needing care and push at the federal level for long-term care insurance that covers all costs, starting with a cap on out-of-pocket payments. Family caregivers are to get a wage-replacement benefit and more relief services, among other things. In the SPD's view, care must be left neither to the market nor to municipalities alone.

The SPD wants care to cost less for those who need it. Later, care insurance should pay all care costs. First, people's own share should get an upper limit. People who care for relatives should get money to replace lost wages. Every county should have a place for advice.

The SPD wants to expand the public health service in staff and digital equipment and focus it on reducing health inequality. Health kiosks offering advice in several languages are to open in disadvantaged areas. Women with unwanted pregnancies are also to have access to abortion services close to home.

The SPD wants to strengthen public health offices. They should get more staff and better technology. Poorer areas should get health kiosks. People can get advice there in several languages. Women with an unwanted pregnancy should be able to get an abortion near home.

The SPD wants to close gaps in psychotherapy care, especially for children and adolescents, and anchor crisis services in law. The number of involuntary psychiatric placements is to fall, and coercive measures are to be avoided as far as possible. A state psychiatry advisory board is to safeguard quality.

The SPD wants more help for people with mental illness. Children and teens should get therapy faster. Crisis services should be written into law. Fewer people should be placed in psychiatric care against their will. A new advisory board should advise politicians.

The SPD wants to set up supervised drug consumption rooms in Bavaria and allow drug checking, meaning the testing of drugs for their contents. It intends to vote for cannabis legalization in the Bundesrat. The platform calls this a progressive drug and addiction policy.

The SPD wants rooms where people can take drugs under supervision. People should be able to have drugs tested for dangerous substances. The SPD wants to vote for legal cannabis in the Bundesrat. Schools should teach more about addiction.

The SPD wants to regulate how much profit private operators of hospitals, nursing homes and medical care centers may take out. Hospitals and homes are to return to municipal ownership more often, and privatizations are to be made harder. The platform argues that health is a human right, not a commodity.

The SPD wants to limit profits of private hospitals and nursing homes. The money should first go into better care. Cities and counties should be able to run hospitals themselves again. A new complaints office should help uncover fraud.

The SPD wants state-owned hospitals to provide good care for women with unwanted pregnancies and to offer abortions. It also wants to keep maternity services in rural areas, improve midwife coverage and create a professorship for gender-sensitive medicine.

Some women are pregnant and do not want to be. State hospitals should help them well, including with an abortion. Rural areas should keep their maternity wards. There should be enough midwives everywhere.

The SPD wants to reform long-term care insurance so that all occupational groups and types of income pay in. The state of Bavaria is to cover investment costs, residents' own contributions in care homes are to be capped, and age-appropriate housing is to be promoted.

Care in a nursing home costs a lot of money. The SPD wants everyone to pay into care insurance. There should be a limit on what residents pay themselves. Older people should be able to stay in their homes for a long time.