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

The AfD wants to set up a state fund that subsidizes liability insurance premiums for freelance midwives. The platform cites a looming shortage of midwives in rural areas.

Midwives pay a lot for their insurance. The state should help them with that. There should be a special fund for it. This way, rural areas should have enough midwives.

The AfD wants to improve working conditions in care and ensure well-trained, well-paid staff. Society as a whole should bear the cost of care, without burdening family members.

Work in care should get better. Care workers should be well trained and well paid. Families should not have to pay for care. Society as a whole should do that.

The AfD wants to train more doctors in the state and give more support to practices in rural areas. Medical school places, rural doctor scholarships, and subsidies would be expanded, and red tape in practices and hospitals reduced.

Rural areas lack doctors. The AfD wants to train more doctors in Brandenburg. There should be more scholarships for future rural doctors. Doctors should have less paperwork.

The AfD wants to set up new hospital departments so that every pregnant woman can reach a maternity ward within 40 minutes. Each woman in labor is to be cared for by her own midwife.

The AfD wants more maternity wards in hospitals. Every pregnant woman should get there in 40 minutes. During birth, one midwife should care for just one woman.

The AfD wants to tackle the shortage of nursing staff with more training places, scholarships and better pay. People who care for relatives at home are to receive wage-replacement benefits.

The AfD wants to train more nurses in Brandenburg. There should be more training places and scholarships. People who care for family members at home should get money for it.

The AfD wants to abolish budget caps for doctors and dentists so that treatment is not limited by budgets. It also wants to bring back the new-patient rule so that new patients get appointments faster.

Doctors today have a limited budget for treatments. The AfD wants to remove this limit. Health insurance fees should not go up because of it. New patients should get an appointment faster.

The AfD calls for thorough checks of foreign medical degrees and work references, especially from countries outside the EU. Doctors trained abroad should also know the German health system from day one.

Some doctors studied in other countries. The AfD wants to check their papers closely. This applies most to countries outside the EU. These doctors should also know the German health system well.

The AfD wants to prevent hospital closures, improve hospital reimbursement and permanently raise state investment. New units for short-term care and early rehabilitation are meant to strengthen hospitals in rural areas.

The AfD does not want hospitals to close. Hospitals should get more money. Hospitals should get new units for short-term care. Early rehab should also be possible there.

The AfD wants to revise the state's emergency services law and involve aid organizations and private companies more. An overall plan is meant to get ambulances to patients faster.

The AfD wants to change the law on emergency services. Private companies should also take part. Ambulances should reach patients faster. More people should know the number 116 117.

The AfD rejects any vaccine mandate and wants a scientific and legal review of Covid policy in Brandenburg. In future outbreaks, only evidence-based and proportionate measures should apply.

The AfD does not want mandatory vaccination. Everyone should decide about their own body. The AfD wants Covid policy in the state to be examined. The WHO should have no say in Brandenburg.

The BSW wants a comprehensive review of the COVID period, including through a commission of inquiry in the state parliament. People who paid fines over the vaccine mandate are to be compensated, and Brandenburg should approve a WHO pandemic treaty only under conditions.

The BSW wants to look closely at the COVID years. A commission in the state parliament should do this. It should also check vaccine side effects. People fined over the vaccine mandate should get money back. This should keep mistakes from happening again.

The BSW wants to stop the privatization of health care, nursing care and other essential services. Hospitals, medical care centers and nursing homes should be run by municipalities or nonprofit welfare organizations, and profits from health care should be banned.

The BSW does not want companies to make money from illness. Hospitals and nursing homes should belong to towns or nonprofit groups. Profits from health care should be banned. Any surplus should go back into care.

The BSW wants to secure care in rural regions with community nurses, municipal medical care centers and polyclinics. It also calls for a stronger emergency medical service, a rural-doctor quota at the new Medical University of Lusatia, and better working conditions for staff.

Rural areas lack doctors and nurses. The BSW wants community nurses. These are nurses who care for people in villages. Towns should run their own medical centers. The ambulance service should get better.

The BSW wants to ensure that private insurance companies never gain access to patient data through the health system's digital infrastructure. The electronic patient record must not cause anyone disadvantages with insurance or at work.

Doctors store patient data digitally. The BSW wants to protect this data. Private insurers should never be allowed to see it. Nobody should be worse off because of their data.

The BSW wants to expand community-based social-psychiatric care across the state and set up a statewide crisis emergency service. Counseling for those affected and their relatives is to be secured with state subsidies.

More and more people have mental illnesses. The BSW wants more local help for them. There should be an emergency service for mental crises everywhere. The state should give money to counseling centers.

The BSW wants to cap what nursing home residents pay out of pocket so that it does not exceed the average pension in Brandenburg. In the long run, the party calls for a solidarity-based full long-term care insurance that everyone pays into, and more support for care at home.

A place in a nursing home costs a lot. The BSW wants to limit the cost for residents. They should not pay more than a normal pension. Later, one insurance should cover all care costs. All citizens should pay into this insurance.

The BSW wants no hospital in Brandenburg to close and rejects the consequences of the federal hospital reform. Loss-making hospitals are to be protected from insolvency by a rescue package, and the state is to invest sufficiently on a permanent basis.

Brandenburg has 66 hospitals. The BSW wants to keep all of them. Hospitals with money problems should get help. The state should give hospitals enough money.

The BSW wants to greatly expand the rural doctor program and increase scholarships for medical students who commit to working as general practitioners in Brandenburg. The new medical university in Cottbus should link physician and nursing training more closely.

Brandenburg is short of family doctors. The BSW wants to give more money to medical students. In return, they must later work as doctors in Brandenburg. The new medical university in Cottbus should bring doctors and nursing closer together.

The CDU wants hospitals, family doctors, and specialists to be available throughout Brandenburg, not just in cities and the suburbs around Berlin. Hospitals, practices, and pharmacies in rural areas should coordinate more closely, and prevention, health, and long-term care should be planned together.

There should be doctors and hospitals everywhere in Brandenburg. That includes the countryside. The CDU wants to do this with counties, towns, and health insurers. Hospitals, doctors, and pharmacies should work together better. Community nurses should care for old and sick people in rural areas.

The CDU wants to preserve all hospital sites in Brandenburg and rejects changes to the hospital landscape being forced by federal law. In its view, hospital planning should remain a matter for the state.

No hospital in Brandenburg should close. The federal government should not force changes by law. The state should plan its own hospitals. All hospitals should get enough money.

Because many practices face closure if no successors are found, the CDU proposes a two-part strategy: train more doctors and use incentives to spread them more evenly across the state. Recognition of foreign degrees is to be sped up without lowering quality standards.

Many doctors will retire soon. Then nobody takes over. The CDU wants to train more doctors. Doctors should get money if they move to the countryside. Degrees from abroad should be accepted faster.

The CDU wants good long-term care to remain affordable for everyone and calls for a fundamentally new federal approach to financing residents' out-of-pocket costs in nursing homes. The state's Pakt für Pflege (care pact) is to be continued and written into the state care law.

Care is getting more and more expensive. The CDU says everyone should be able to afford good care. The federal government should change the rules for nursing home costs. That means the part people pay themselves. Care at home should come first.

The SPD wants to raise the state's annual hospital funding from 110 to 200 million euros. This is meant to secure broad inpatient care across the state. Municipal hospitals are to join together in networks.

The SPD wants to give hospitals much more money. So far they get 110 million euros a year. In the future it should be 200 million euros. This should keep hospitals open across the state.

The SPD wants an investment program to fund health centers and polyclinics, especially in rural areas. This should help municipalities secure primary care. It also wants more digital services, a stronger public health service and shorter waits for psychotherapy.

The SPD wants to pay for health centers in towns and villages. Several doctors work together there. This should help rural areas most. People should also get a therapy spot faster.

The SPD wants to continue the Landärztestipendium (rural doctor scholarship) and extend it to dentistry to counter the shortage of doctors in rural regions. Foreign qualifications should be recognized faster. The Agnes program for community nurses should be open to everyone with health insurance.

Rural areas lack doctors. So the SPD wants to keep giving scholarships. A scholarship is money for studying. In return, students must later work in Brandenburg for five years. Experts from abroad should also be allowed to work sooner.

The SPD wants to prevent care costs from pushing people into poverty. The state is to cover a larger share of investment costs so that people in care pay less themselves. The “Pakt für Pflege” (care pact) is also to continue permanently.

A place in a care home costs a lot. The SPD wants people in care to pay less themselves. The state should cover more of the costs. Care at home should also get more support.