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

The AfD wants to raise investment grants for Berlin's hospitals substantially and replace billing by flat rates per case with a different payment system. The platform cites the risk of insolvencies and closures and a lack of money for buildings, technology and staff.

The AfD wants to give Berlin's hospitals more money. The money is for buildings and equipment. Today hospitals get a fixed sum for each case. The AfD wants to change that. The new payment system should mean less paperwork.

The AfD wants to lift budget caps for doctors' practices and pay for each service individually. More university places, licensing areas based on city districts and after-hours practices are meant to shorten waiting times and spread care more evenly.

Many people wait a long time to see a doctor. The AfD wants doctors to be paid for every treatment. Each district should get an urgent-care practice. There should be more places to study medicine. Doctors should decide freely how to treat patients.

The AfD wants to bring most drug manufacturing back to Germany and to countries it considers safe, and to require wholesalers to hold stocks. Pharmacies are to be put on a sounder economic footing through simpler billing and better pay.

Some medicines are often not available. The AfD wants more medicines to be made in Germany. Wholesalers should keep a stock for two months. Pharmacies should have less paperwork. They should also get more money for giving advice.

The AfD wants to strengthen care at home through a higher Pflegegeld (care allowance) and to fund new nursing home places with state money. The platform cites the growing number of people needing care, inflation and rising out-of-pocket costs.

Many people are cared for at home by their family. The AfD wants to pay a higher care allowance for this. The allowance should go up by 23 percent. Each new nursing home place should get 40,000 euros. Welfare offices should decide on requests faster.

The AfD calls for a review of the COVID period in which those responsible are held to account and people it considers wrongly convicted are rehabilitated. It rejects mandatory vaccination as well as influence by the WHO and the EU over German health care.

The AfD wants to look into the COVID period. It thinks many rules from that time were wrong. Politicians should answer for them. No one should be forced to get a vaccine. The WHO and the EU should not decide on health care in Germany. The WHO is the World Health Organization.

The AfD rejects a central database for patient data and considers data protection for the electronic patient record inadequate. Patients are to decide who receives their data; emergency data and a living will would be stored on the insurance card.

The AfD does not want a central database for patient data. It thinks the data is not protected well enough. Each patient should decide about their own data. Important emergency data should be on the health insurance card.

The AfD wants public health offices to focus on tasks they can actually fulfill and that serve the general public. The platform cites staff shortages and too many duties.

The public health offices do not have enough staff. The AfD wants them to have fewer tasks. They should do only the most important things. One is protecting people from epidemics. Another is checking food and water.

The CDU wants to develop Berlin into a world-leading hub for the health economy and medical research. Red tape is to be cut, approvals sped up and more space made available. A Future Health Campus is to be built in central Berlin.

Berlin should become a world city for medicine. The CDU wants less red tape and faster approvals. Companies should get more space. A new health campus should be built in the city center.

The CDU wants state legislation allowing clinical data from all Berlin hospitals to be used for research, innovation and spin-offs under high data protection standards. A uniform hospital information system is to be introduced across all clinics.

Hospitals have a lot of data about patients. The CDU wants to use this data for research. Data protection should stay strong. All hospitals in Berlin should use the same computer system.

Working with the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung (association of statutory health insurance physicians), the CDU wants to change rules so that family doctors, pediatricians, and midwives set up practice where they are needed. It also plans practice space in new buildings, a central directory of services, and more local prevention.

The CDU wants more doctors close to where people live. Family doctors, children's doctors, and midwives should work where they are missing. New city buildings should have room for practices. A directory should show where doctors are. Pharmacies should offer more health services.

The CDU wants patients in emergencies to find the right place faster and waiting times in emergency rooms to fall. To this end, walk-in practices at hospitals are to be expanded and emergency services linked digitally.

In an emergency, people should find help faster. They should wait less in emergency rooms. Hospitals should have more urgent-care practices. The phone number 116117 should play a bigger role.

The CDU wants to implement the hospital reform with a plan developed jointly with all Berlin hospital operators and to invest specifically in infrastructure and equipment. The Charité is to receive adequate investment funding as a center of top-tier medicine.

The CDU wants to carry out the hospital reform. It wants to do this with all Berlin hospitals. The state should pay for buildings and equipment. The Charité is a big university hospital. It should get more money.

In long-term care, the CDU follows the principle of outpatient before inpatient care, so that people needing care can live at home as long as possible. At the same time, telemedicine and digital links between practices, hospitals, and care facilities are to be expanded citywide.

People who need care should live at home for a long time. Districts should offer more advice for this. Doctors should also help by video. Practices, hospitals, and care homes should be connected digitally. Older people should get help nearby.

The CDU wants to focus more on mental health, especially among young people, and expand low-threshold support services. Psychotherapy provision is to be based on actual need in order to shorten waiting times.

The CDU wants to help young people with mental health problems. Help should be quick and easy to get. The Soulspace project should open in more places. People should wait less for therapy.

The CDU wants to continue, reliably secure, and further develop the Fast-Track City initiative. The goal is to end new HIV infections and AIDS in Berlin.

Fast-Track City is a program against HIV. The CDU wants to keep it going. Its funding should be secure. The goal is that no one gets HIV anymore.

The CDU wants to strengthen care in people's own homes and neighborhoods and set up a care emergency hotline available around the clock. The aim is to resolve acute crises in home care early and avoid unnecessary emergency calls.

Many people get care at home. The CDU wants to support this care. There should be an emergency phone line for care. It works day and night. It should bring help fast.

The CDU wants to attract and retain more nursing staff. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster, training and degree programs improved, and doctors and nurses freed from administrative work.

Care homes and hospitals need more nurses. The CDU wants to find more people for nursing. Degrees from other countries should count faster. Trainees should get more practice places. Nurses should do less paperwork.

The CDU wants to create a nursing chamber for Berlin. It is to develop the nursing profession, secure care standards and represent the interests of nurses.

The CDU wants a nursing chamber in Berlin. A chamber is a body that represents a profession. It should make sure care standards are good. It should also speak for nurses.

The CDU wants Berlin's hospitals to remain operational during disasters, cyberattacks, power outages or in a defense emergency. This includes staff and supply reserves and better IT security.

Hospitals should keep working in a crisis. For example, during a power outage or an attack. They need extra staff and medicine for this. Their computers should be better protected.

The Greens want everyone in Berlin to be able to eat healthy, sustainable food regardless of income, and they regard nutrition as part of basic public services. To that end, Berlin's food strategy is to be developed further and meals in public institutions are to become healthier, more plant-based and more regional.

The Greens want good food for everyone in Berlin. Money should not matter for this. Food in schools, daycare centers and cafeterias will get healthier. There will be more vegetables and more food from the region. Drinking water will be free in public buildings.

The Greens want health care for women and FLINTA* that is available across Berlin and free of discrimination. This includes more specialized and multilingual services, free menstrual products in public buildings and a menopause strategy.

The Greens want better health care for women. No one should be treated unfairly. Every district should have gynecologists. Pads and tampons should be free in public buildings. There should also be more help during menopause.

The Greens want doctors' practices spread more evenly across the districts and new neighborhoods to be well served from the start. An urban health strategy is meant to link care and prevention more closely. The platform justifies this with unequal health prospects depending on where people live and their social situation.

Some parts of Berlin do not have enough doctors. This is mostly at the edge of the city. The Greens want to spread doctors' offices more fairly. New neighborhoods should also get enough doctors. The public health office should become stronger.

The Greens want to create health centers throughout Berlin that combine medical treatment, therapy, psychosocial support and prevention in one place. In addition, Community Health Nurses are to work in every district.

The Greens want new health centers all over Berlin. There you find doctors, therapy and advice in one place. The teams should speak several languages. Special nurses should work in every district. They help people in the neighborhood.

The Greens want to use the federal hospital reform and its transformation fund to modernize and digitalize Berlin's hospitals. Emergency care is to be developed further, including through integrated emergency centers. Data on treatment quality is to be published again.

The Greens want to make Berlin's hospitals more modern. They want to use federal money for this. There should be new centers for emergencies. Office doctors and hospitals work together there. Everyone should be able to read how well a hospital treats people.

The Greens want to use digital services, telemedicine and artificial intelligence as an easily accessible complement to care. To that end, the digital equipment of health care facilities is to be expanded. Digital self-determination and participation are to be preserved.

The Greens want more digital health services. One example is telemedicine. That means doctor and patient talk by video or phone. Doctors' offices and hospitals should get better technology. Care should stay good.

The Greens want to implement Berlin's heat action plan and enable hospitals, care homes, schools and sports facilities to draw up their own heat protection plans. The platform calls the climate crisis a health crisis, with heat so far being its strongest effect in Berlin.

Heat is dangerous for health. This is especially true for old and sick people and for children. The Greens want to help hospitals, care homes, schools and sports facilities. They should make their own plans against heat. New heat protection alliances should form in the districts.

The Greens want to expand easily accessible outreach and crisis services for people with mental illness in all districts. Psychiatric facilities are to receive more staff and funding so that waiting times fall. Additional services are planned for children and young people.

The Greens want more help for people with mental illness. Every district should offer help in a crisis. Psychiatric clinics should get more money and staff. That way people wait less for help. Schools should have more psychologists.

The Greens want people without health insurance or residence papers to receive medical care as well. The health system is to be free of discrimination, and services are to be culturally sensitive and offer interpreting.

Some people have no health insurance. Some have no residence papers. The Greens want them to be able to see a doctor too. There should be help with translation. Homeless people should also get better care.

The Greens want to bring counseling, hospice and palliative services together in a new strategy and develop them further. At the federal level, they want a law that protects the right to a self-determined death and regulates assisted suicide. They refer to the Federal Constitutional Court.

The Greens want better help for people at the end of life. Hospices care for dying people. These services should be close to home. The federal government should also pass a law on help with suicide. No one should be under pressure.

The Greens want to create a network of midwife services across Berlin, especially in districts that are poorly served so far. Delivery rooms are to get more staff, and midwife-led delivery rooms are to become the norm in hospitals.

Midwives help before, during and after birth. The Greens want more midwife services all over Berlin. More staff should work in delivery rooms. Midwives should lead delivery rooms in hospitals. The degree program for midwives should get lasting funding.

The Greens want state-owned hospitals to provide abortions and push at the federal level for more liberal abortion law. Young people are to get contraceptives free of charge. Health insurers are to pay for fertility treatment for everyone, regardless of relationship status.

The Greens want people to decide freely about having children. State-owned hospitals should offer abortions. Young people should get contraceptives for free. Health insurance should pay for fertility treatment for everyone. This should also apply to single people.

The Greens want to introduce a state law on prevention that defines the state's responsibilities. Health information is to be easier to understand and available in more languages. Measures are to be developed against health misinformation online.

Preventing illness is better than getting sick. That is what the Greens think. They want a new law for prevention in Berlin. Health information should be in easy language. It should also be in other languages. The Greens want to act against false information online.

The Greens want to draw up a prevention strategy for all of Berlin and involve residents in the process. It includes easy-to-reach vaccinations, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and more options for healthy eating and exercise. According to the platform, common diseases can be reduced considerably through prevention.

The Greens want to stop illness early. Berlin should get one shared plan for this. People in Berlin should have a say. Vaccines should be available close to home. Children should be able to eat well and be active.

The Greens want to make health conferences mandatory in every borough and anchor health promotion in all policy areas. The public health service (ÖGD) is to get more staff and funding. A fixed quota of university places at the Charité is planned for future doctors in public service.

Every borough should get a health conference. There, people discuss what the area needs. The public health offices should get more money and staff. The Charité hospital should keep study places for future public health doctors.

The Greens want more drug consumption rooms, more street outreach, and shorter waits for therapy. Help should not depend on a person giving up drugs. The platform points to rising numbers of drug deaths and the aim of solving problems rather than moving them elsewhere.

The Greens want to help people with addiction more. There should be more rooms for safer drug use. More social workers should help on the street. People should wait less for therapy. Help should not require quitting drugs first.

The Greens want to greatly enlarge Berlin's drug-checking service because, according to the platform, demand exceeds supply. It is also to operate on a mobile basis and be linked to a citywide warning system for dangerous substances. The emergency drug naloxone is to be available through addiction services and social work.

Drug checking means people have their drugs tested in a lab. They learn if dangerous substances are in them. The Greens want to make this service much bigger. There should also be mobile testing. A warning system should alert people to dangerous substances.

The Greens want to sharply limit gambling advertising and make financial checks and fixed deposit limits the norm in online gambling. Counseling for alcohol and medication dependence is to be coordinated at the state level. Protection of non-smokers in public spaces is to be enforced more strictly and, if needed, tightened by law.

The Greens want fewer ads for gambling. Online gambling should have fixed limits on deposits. Help for alcohol addiction should be equally good across Berlin. Non-smokers should be better protected.

The Greens want to make Berlin a pilot region where cannabis is dispensed legally. They also want to cut red tape for cultivation clubs. The platform calls the federal Konsumcannabisgesetz (cannabis law) the right step and wants to replace the black market with legal supply channels.

People in Berlin should be able to get cannabis legally. This should start as a test. Growing clubs should face less paperwork. The Greens want to end illegal dealing this way.

The Greens want to set up a Pflegekammer (nursing chamber) to represent nurses and nursing assistants as their own elected professional body. Without it, the platform says, nursing professions remain underrepresented on state-level bodies. After the start-up phase, its effectiveness is to be reviewed.

Nurses should get their own representation. It is called a nursing chamber. Nurses elect it themselves. The chamber speaks for them in politics. Later, there should be a check on how well it works.

The Greens want to secure union-scale pay, predictable hours, and binding staffing levels in nursing. Training is to be brought together on one campus and expanded. In addition, skilled workers from abroad are to be recruited under fair rules and have their qualifications recognized faster.

Nurses should get union-scale pay. Their working hours should be reliable. There should be fixed rules for enough staff. Training should happen in one shared place. Nurses from other countries should be recruited fairly.

The Greens want to mention family caregivers in Berlin's constitution and give them more relief. Plans include a citywide care emergency hotline, better-funded support services, and a push at the federal level for wage-replacement pay. The platform argues that relatives carry most of the burden of care.

Many people care for relatives at home. The Greens want to help them more. They should be named in Berlin's constitution. An emergency phone line should help fast in a crisis. Caregivers should get money to replace lost wages.

The Greens want to pass a Landespflegegesetz (state care law) that governs the state's care services and requires binding needs planning. More places for day, night, and short-term care are to be created in all boroughs. The platform notes that care places are unevenly spread and especially scarce in the outer boroughs.

Berlin should get its own care law. The state should plan how much care is really needed. Every borough should get more care places. Advice centers should be close by everywhere.

The Greens want to establish community health nurses in Berlin as an additional pillar of care. These professionals would give advice, make home visits and connect the various services in a neighborhood. Applications for Hilfe zur Pflege (care assistance benefits) would also become faster and more digital.

The Greens want a new kind of care worker in Berlin. They are called community health nurses. They give advice on health and care. They also visit people at home. Applying for care assistance should become faster.

The Greens want care to reflect the diversity of Berlin's population and would make training on this mandatory. At the same time, the state's care commissioner would gain more influence, partly to counter violence in care settings.

The Greens want care that fits all people. Care workers should take required training on this. There should be more advice for queer people. Berlin's care commissioner should have a say in new laws. Violence in care should be fought.

The Greens want to recruit more paramedics and create a separate career track for the emergency medical service. A round table is to link the service with health care, and crisis intervention teams are to be introduced. The party rejects lowering medical standards.

People who call 112 should get the right help. The Greens want to hire more trained staff for the ambulance service. There should be special teams for people in a mental crisis. People seeking help should reach the right place faster. Medical quality should not go down.

The Left sees health care as a public service and wants it oriented toward the population's needs rather than profit. The basis is to be planning across outpatient, hospital and nursing care, along with more prevention and better training in health professions.

The Left wants to plan health care better. Planning should follow what people need. Profit should play no part. The city should do more to keep people healthy. Training for health jobs should get better.

The Left wants to build up the public health service (ÖGD) as a third pillar of health care. Health offices should get enough staff and infrastructure for all their legal duties and be allowed to provide diagnosis and treatment themselves where other care falls short.

The Left wants stronger public health offices. They should get more staff and better equipment. Open jobs should be filled. The offices should also be allowed to treat people. That applies where there are too few doctors.

The Left calls for reliable funding of Berlin's services against HIV and AIDS and for access to prevention and treatment for everyone, including refugees. Because vaccination rates are falling, vaccination campaigns and checkup programs are also to be expanded.

The Left wants steady funding for the fight against HIV. Everyone should get HIV medicine. That includes refugees. There should be more campaigns for vaccines. More people should go to health checkups.

The Left wants to fund two care centers for homeless people and set up outreach health services for the uninsured. According to the program, current care depends heavily on donations and volunteers. Barriers for disadvantaged groups in the health system are also to be reduced.

The Left wants to pay for two health centers for homeless people. Doctors, nurses and social workers will work there. Helpers should also go out to people. This helps people without health insurance. Doctors' offices should be free of barriers.

The Left wants a special program to set up medical care centers (MVZ) under public or nonprofit ownership to tackle the shortage of doctors, especially in underserved neighborhoods and in eastern Berlin. The party rejects investor-run centers and wants more affordable space for practices.

Some parts of Berlin have too few doctors. The Left wants to build new health centers there. The state, the districts or nonprofit groups should own them. The state pays to get them started. There should also be more affordable rooms for doctors' offices.

The Left wants to expand pilot projects for community health nurses and tie them more closely to municipal health centers. These nurses are meant to advise people in their neighborhoods and help those with poor access to the health system reach medical care.

Community health nurses work in neighborhoods. They give people advice about their health. The Left wants more projects like this. This should help old and sick people most.

The Left wants better care for people with ME/CFS, long Covid and post-vac syndrome, especially those who cannot be transported. It plans home visits, telemedicine, more specialized services and more research funding.

Some people stay sick for a long time after Covid. Others have an illness called ME/CFS. Many cannot leave their homes. The Left wants home visits and video appointments for them. It also wants more research.

The Left wants to keep pharmacies in residential neighborhoods and tie them more closely into health care. It points to the falling number of pharmacies in Berlin and to supply problems with medicines.

Berlin has fewer and fewer pharmacies. The Left wants to keep pharmacies close to where people live. It wants more training places for pharmacy jobs. It also wants to change how pharmacies are paid.

The Left wants to raise the state's investment funding for hospitals and reverse cuts made by the current Senate. At the federal level it wants to move beyond the flat-rate case payment system, and Berlin is to plan hospital services by need rather than revenue.

Hospitals now get money for each treatment. These are called case payments. The Left wants to end this system. Berlin should give hospitals more money for buildings and equipment. The state should plan which hospital offers which care.

The Left wants to expand the public hospital groups Charité and Vivantes and return private hospitals to public ownership when operators give up sites or undercut standards. The public hospitals are to be reorganized so that staff, patient representatives and districts share in decisions.

The Left says hospitals should not make profit for investors. The public hospitals Charité and Vivantes should grow. Some private hospitals should belong to the city again. Staff and patients should have a say in public hospitals.

The Left wants more psychotherapy practices covered by public insurance in Berlin, crisis centers and counseling offices in every district, and stable funding for the crisis service. Psychiatry is to work without violence as far as possible, and mental health is to become a topic in schools and in workplace safety rules.

Many people wait a long time for therapy. The Left wants more therapy places paid by public health insurance. Every district should get a center for mental health crises. Schools should teach about mental health. Psychiatric care should avoid violence as much as possible.

The Left wants higher pay, binding staffing rules and an end to outsourcing in the health professions. It points to staff shortages and heavy workloads, which in its view lead to mistakes and put patients at risk.

Hospitals and practices do not have enough staff. The work is very hard. The Left wants better pay for these jobs. It wants fixed rules on how many staff must be there. Outsourced companies should come back into the hospitals.

The Left wants to introduce a Pflegewohngeld (care housing benefit) through which the state relieves nursing home residents of investment costs. More care facilities are to be publicly run, and at the federal level it seeks lower co-payments and, in the long run, full-coverage care insurance.

A place in a nursing home costs more and more. The Left wants a new care housing benefit. This is money from the state for people in nursing homes. More homes should be publicly owned. Later, insurance should pay all care costs.

The Left wants to expand the Pflegestützpunkte (independent care advice centers) and set up an emergency care hotline. To relieve family caregivers, short-term and day care would be expanded, and care provision would be planned in a binding way at state and district level.

The Left wants more advice on care. There should be more care advice centers. An emergency phone line should help at night and on weekends. People who care for relatives should get more relief.

The Left wants medicine that takes gender differences into account in research, training and treatment. In the platform's view, the health of women and FLINTA* people has been neglected, and women-specific topics receive too little research funding.

The Left wants medicine to pay more attention to women. There should be more research on illnesses that affect women. Doctors and nurses should learn more about this. Pads and tampons should be free in public buildings.

The Left wants heat action plans for the state, the districts and facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes, along with a climate-neutral conversion of health care buildings. The platform cites the health effects of the climate crisis, which hit vulnerable groups hardest.

The Left says the climate crisis makes people sick. So there should be plans against heat. Hospitals and nursing homes should use less energy. They should become climate neutral.

The Left wants to use digital tools for care and health planning while protecting patients' data. Hospitals, medical practices, care facilities and public health offices would work together more closely.

The Left wants more digital technology in health care. Hospitals, doctors and health offices should share data better. Patients' data should stay safe. All health workers should learn to use the technology.

The Left wants a drug policy that does not punish use but reduces health and social risks. At the federal level, the narcotics law would be reformed so that currently banned substances can be supplied legally and on a non-profit basis.

The Left wants to stop punishing drug use. People should be able to get currently banned drugs legally. Nobody should make a profit from this. Help and advice for addiction should grow.

The Left opposes gearing Berlin's health system toward a possible war. Care should be organized according to social criteria and the population's needs, not military standards.

The Left wants no war preparation in hospitals. Berlin hospitals should not take part in war drills. Care should follow what people need. Health workers should serve peace.

The Left wants a dedicated program to bring care facilities back under public ownership and to invest public money in care infrastructure. It also wants better medical care for older people and those needing care, for example through higher pay for house calls.

The Left wants care homes to belong to the city again. The city should put more money into care. There should be more places for day care and short-term care. Family doctors should get more money for home visits. Offices should process requests for help faster.

Citing growing heat stress, the Left calls for more protective services aimed specifically at older people. Public meeting places are to serve as cool spaces, and senior housing and care facilities are to be made ready for heat.

Summers in Berlin often get very hot. This is dangerous for older people. The Left wants cool rooms in the city's meeting places. There should be more drinking water in buildings and in public squares. Neighbors should visit and support older people who live alone.

The Left wants a coordinated plan for psychosocial prevention and better care for children and young people in Berlin. The health system, youth social work, schools and youth welfare services would work together more closely.

Some children and young people are lonely or mentally ill. The Left wants to help them better. Doctors, schools and youth services should work together more. There should be more help by chat and phone.

The Left calls for health care free of discrimination, including free HIV prevention medication (PrEP) for everyone who needs it. Waiting times for treatments for trans people are to be shortened.

The Left wants good health care for queer people. PrEP should be free. PrEP is a medicine that protects against HIV. Trans people should not wait so long for treatment. Doctors should learn more about queer people.

The Left wants Berlin to push at the federal level for a far-reaching ban on advertising for sports betting. It cites the risk of addiction, which it says comes especially from betting apps. In Berlin, prevention is to be stepped up and the appearance of betting shops strictly regulated.

Sports betting can be addictive. The Left wants to ban almost all ads for it. Berlin should push for this across Germany. Betting shops should not invite people to gamble from the outside. Young people should learn more about the dangers.

The SPD wants to fund Berlin's hospitals adequately and carry out the hospital reform. A new children's hospital would be built together with the Charité. The Charité and Vivantes would be strengthened and cooperate more closely.

Many hospitals in Berlin have too little money. The SPD wants to give them more. A new children's hospital should be built with the Charité. Nurses in hospitals should have a lighter workload.

The SPD wants more general and specialist practices and therapy slots, especially in outer districts, and shorter waits for appointments. To that end, planning of physician licenses would be reformed together with the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung (association of statutory health insurance physicians). Health centers and after-hours practices would be expanded.

Some parts of Berlin have too few doctors. The SPD wants to change that. People should get a specialist appointment faster. There should be more health centers close to home.

The SPD wants to develop a mental health master plan that reorganizes support and shortens waiting times. More therapy slots would be created and more specialists trained.

Many people with mental illness wait a long time for help. The SPD wants a big plan to fix this. There should be more therapy places. Berlin should train more specialists.

The SPD wants a new law making support services for older people a mandatory public task and wants to strengthen home care. Nursing homes would be inspected more closely. At the federal level the party calls for a cap on what people pay out of pocket for care.

More and more people in Berlin need care. The SPD wants to strengthen care at home. A new law should make help for older people a duty. Nursing homes should be checked more often.

The SPD wants to expand health services for people with special needs and close gaps in care. This includes gender-sensitive and queer-sensitive medicine, better maternity care and care for homeless people and refugees.

The SPD wants good medical care for everyone. Doctors should pay more attention to differences between the sexes. Queer people should also get good care. Homeless people and refugees should get medical help.

In drug policy, the SPD favors help over punishment. Counseling, drug checking, therapy, and supervised consumption rooms are to be expanded. At the same time, drugs are to be removed from public spaces, especially parks and playgrounds.

The SPD wants to help people with addiction instead of punishing them. There will be more counseling and therapy. There will be more rooms where people can use drugs safely. Parks and playgrounds should be free of drugs.