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

The BIW wants enough affordable nursing homes, senior apartments and assisted living options because the number of older people is growing. Care facilities would be inspected regularly and without notice. Volunteering by seniors would be encouraged.

There are more and more old people in Bremen. The BIW wants enough affordable homes and apartments for them. Houses for young and old together are also wanted. Inspectors should check care homes without warning.

The CDU wants to make care by relatives and volunteers easier and to strengthen home care relative to nursing homes. It points to the rising number of people needing care, staff shortages, and growing costs.

More and more people need care. The CDU wants to support relatives and volunteers who provide it. There should be more short-term care places close to home. Nursing homes should be inspected every year.

The CDU wants to secure medical care for older people and do more for people with dementia. It points out that Bremen has the highest share nationwide of insured people with a dementia diagnosis.

The CDU wants good care for older people. Family doctors should be close to home. People with dementia should get more help. Dementia is an illness that makes people forget many things. The CDU will look into a special village for people with dementia.

The CDU wants to plan care by doctors' offices and by hospitals jointly in the future. The basis is to be an analysis of actual care needs covering Bremen, Bremerhaven and the surrounding area.

The CDU wants to plan doctors' offices and hospitals together. Today they are planned separately. First, a study should show what people really need. Hospital planning should then follow that study.

The CDU wants to digitalize health care in Bremen and develop the municipal hospitals into so-called smart hospitals. This is meant to cut red tape and free up more time for treating and caring for patients.

The CDU wants more digital technology in health care. The city hospitals should handle almost all steps digitally. That means less paperwork. Doctors and nurses then have more time for patients.

The CDU wants to gradually raise the state's investment funding for hospitals to 90 million euros a year. All hospitals in the state are to receive the money reliably and on equal terms.

The CDU wants to give hospitals more money for investments. In the end it should be 90 million euros a year. All hospitals in the state should be treated equally. That way they can plan better.

The CDU wants the state to stop covering the losses of the municipal hospital group Gesundheit Nord (GeNo). The group is to present a restructuring plan, and the health department would no longer chair its supervisory board.

Gesundheit Nord is the city hospital group in Bremen. It loses money. The CDU no longer wants to cover these losses with tax money. The group should present a recovery plan within six months. The health senator should no longer lead its supervisory board.

The CDU wants to create what it calls the largest and most attractive health campus in northern Germany and draw more young people into health professions. Training sites, training places and career paths are to be expanded for this.

The CDU wants more young people to choose health jobs. For that, there should be good places to train. A nursing academy is to be built in Bremerhaven. There should be more training places for assistants in doctors' offices.

The CDU wants a “Konzertierte Aktion Pflege” (concerted action on nursing) to recruit new nurses and bring former ones back into the profession. Bremen is to become a more attractive place to work for doctors and nurses.

Bremen does not have enough nurses. The CDU wants to win new nurses. People who left the job should come back. The CDU also wants to talk about skilled workers from abroad. It will look into flexible child care at the city hospitals.

The CDU wants to secure family doctors and specialists close to home by creating medical care centers or health centers in the neighborhoods. In areas with gaps in care, incentives are meant to get doctors to set up practice.

The CDU wants doctors close to where people live. For that, there should be health centers in the neighborhoods. Several doctors work there under one roof. Where doctors are missing, the CDU wants incentives for new practices.

The CDU wants more services offering abortions in the state of Bremen, especially medication abortions. The legally required counseling before an abortion is to stay in place. Institutions working on sexual health are also to cooperate more closely.

The CDU wants more places in Bremen that offer abortions. Abortion with medication matters most to the party. Women must still go to counseling first. That rule is to stay.

The CDU wants to equip the public health offices in Bremen and Bremerhaven with more qualified staff, investment and digital tools. They are to rank among the most digitalized health offices in Germany. Organization and workflows are also to improve.

The CDU wants stronger public health offices. They are to get enough well-trained staff. The offices are to work in a more modern and digital way. Knowledge from the university is to help.

The CDU wants to focus Bremen's drug services on withdrawal and rejects permanent state-funded drug use. A drug consumption room is to serve only as a transit point on the way into treatment. The whole support system is to be reviewed externally and moved under state responsibility.

The CDU wants to help addicted people quit. Withdrawal is the main goal for the party. A room for drug use is to be only a stop along the way. In the future, the public health offices are to run the help.

The FDP wants medical and psychological research to focus more on women, arguing that it has so far been geared mainly toward men. It also calls for more gynecological care, better cancer prevention, and comprehensive help for endometriosis and after miscarriages.

Medical research has mostly studied men. The FDP wants more research on women's health. There should be more gynecologists in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Health insurers should pay for all needed endometriosis treatment. Endometriosis is a painful illness involving tissue like the lining of the womb.

The FDP wants every district of Bremen and Bremerhaven to have enough general practitioners and specialists. The Kassenärztliche Vereinigung (association of statutory health insurance physicians) is to draw up a care plan with the health department, and emergency services are to be expanded.

Some neighborhoods have too few doctors' offices. The FDP wants to change that. The doctors' association should make a plan together with the city. Emergency services by doctors should also grow. Doctors with their own offices should stay.

The FDP calls for a thorough needs assessment for hospitals and wants to adopt a state hospital plan by 2024 at the latest. All sites are to be kept through specialization, and the hospital group Gesundheit Nord (GeNo) is to be fundamentally reorganized.

The FDP wants to keep all hospitals in Bremen and Bremerhaven. There should be a new plan for this by 2024. Each hospital should build on its special strengths. The hospital group GeNo should be reorganized. The single hospitals should decide more on their own.

The FDP wants more treatment and counseling services close to home for people with mental illness. A central coordination office is to provide faster help in acute cases, and campaigns are to raise public awareness of the issue.

The FDP wants more help for people with mental illness. There should be more places for treatment and advice close to home. A central office should organize help in an emergency. The FDP also wants campaigns. They should show that mental illness is as serious as physical illness.

The FDP rejects new taxes on fat, sugar, dairy products or meat. In its view, lifestyle is a matter for the individual, and the state should limit itself to education and prevention.

The FDP wants no new taxes on sugar, fat, dairy products or meat. It says each person decides how healthy to live. The state should only inform and help prevent illness. The information should be based on science.

The FDP wants to give public health offices more staff and better technology so they can respond quickly in a crisis. It wants to do without restrictive COVID measures and continue research on long COVID.

Public health offices should get more staff. They should also get better technology. Open jobs should be filled right away. The FDP wants no more COVID rules that restrict people. Research on long COVID should go on.

The FDP wants to tackle staff shortages in nursing and health professions with more training, better working conditions and faster recognition of foreign qualifications. Nursing assistants are to relieve qualified nurses of simpler tasks.

Nursing and health jobs lack skilled workers. The FDP wants more training and more study places for these jobs. Degrees from other countries should be recognized faster. Nurses should get flexible hours and good child care. Assistants should take over simple tasks from them.

The FDP wants to train more midwives, win back those who have left the profession and improve working conditions. It supports midwife centers in underserved neighborhoods and midwife-led delivery rooms.

The FDP wants to train more midwives. Midwives who stopped working should come back. The work should get better. Then part-time midwives may work more hours. Neighborhoods with too little care should get midwife centers.

The FDP wants to expand addiction prevention in schools and youth facilities while making illegal drugs harder to obtain. People with addictions are to get easy-to-reach support, including a diamorphine clinic and privately funded drug checking.

The FDP wants to protect young people from drugs. Schools should run more programs for this. More police should make buying drugs harder. People with addictions should get help more easily.

The FDP wants good, affordable care for the aging population in the state of Bremen. The 2018 geriatric care plan is to be revised and give more weight to inpatient care for people with dementia.

The FDP wants good care for old people. Care should stay affordable. Care workers should have less strain. People with dementia should get better care in homes.

The FDP wants to further expand outpatient and inpatient palliative care and give hospices more financial support. It argues that changing family structures make more professional services necessary.

The FDP wants more help for dying people. There should be more hospices. A hospice is a house where dying people get care. Hospices should get more money. Children's hospices should be well equipped too.

The Greens call for a pandemic council for Bremen made up mainly of scientific experts and representatives of the health care system. It is to give policymakers scientific advice on long-term strategies. The party considers further protective measures against the COVID-19 pandemic necessary.

The Greens want a pandemic council for Bremen. A pandemic is a disease that spreads around the world. Experts from research and medicine sit on the council. They advise the politicians.

The Greens want people to get reliable medical care close to where they live. To that end, working conditions and pay in health care are to improve, and incentives are to draw professionals to Bremen and Bremerhaven. Nursing care, hospice places and psychotherapy are also to be expanded.

The Greens want good doctors and practices in every neighborhood. People who work in health care should get better conditions. That way, more professionals should come to Bremen. There should also be more places for psychotherapy and care.

The Greens want to give everyone access to menstrual products, which they classify as a necessary medical good. As a start, the products are to be available in the restrooms of all public buildings. The party justifies this with the financial burden on many of those affected.

Pads and tampons cost money. For some people that is too expensive. The Greens want to put them out in public buildings. These are schools and government offices, for example.

The Greens see a shortage of care when it comes to abortions. To fix it, medical staff are to be able to get the necessary training. This is also to happen through pilot projects.

The Greens say there are too few services for abortions. They want more training for medical staff. There should also be trial projects for this.

The Greens want to permanently give the public health departments more staff and better technology. Digitalization is meant to improve data sharing, ease the load on employees and make processes more efficient. The departments are also to become central bodies for pandemic preparedness and civil protection.

The Greens want to strengthen the public health departments. They should get more staff and better technology. The departments should prepare for new pandemics. A help service for mental health crises should be there day and night again.

The Greens want the hospital group Gesundheit Nord to stay in municipal ownership while becoming financially sustainable. Medical departments are to be concentrated and emergency rooms reorganized. At the federal level, hospital funding should no longer depend solely on case numbers.

The Greens want the Gesundheit Nord hospitals to stay owned by the city of Bremen. The hospitals should manage their money better. Not every hospital should offer everything. Emergency rooms should be only for real emergencies.

The Greens want to set up interdisciplinary centers for sexual, reproductive and gender-specific health and keep supporting existing services. The centers are also meant to be a point of contact for trans, inter and non-binary people.

The Greens want new health centers in Bremen. They deal with birth control, pregnancy and infections passed on through sex. Trans, inter and non-binary people also get help there. Women without health insurance should get their own consultation hours.

The Greens want people in a mental health crisis to get help faster. The state of Bremen is to have enough psychotherapists, more points of contact and better-connected support services. Prevention and suicide prevention are to receive more resources.

People in a mental crisis often wait months for help. The Greens want to change that. There should be more therapy places and more places to turn to. Children and teenagers should also get help more easily.

The Greens want to tackle the shortage of nursing staff through relief at work, adequate pay and family-friendly scheduling. Training places are to be expanded, academic nursing education promoted and foreign qualifications recognized quickly. The state is to get a commissioner for nursing care.

There are not enough nurses and caregivers. The Greens want to make these jobs better. Staff should have less stress and better pay. There should be more training places. Qualifications from abroad should be recognized faster.

The Greens want to stop financial investors from buying up care facilities and, in the long run, bring more nursing homes back into municipal ownership. In the short term, the state is to cover investment costs and residents' out-of-pocket contributions are to be capped.

Some companies buy nursing homes to make a lot of money. The Greens want to stop that. More homes should belong to the cities again. The state should pay part of the costs. Residents should not have to pay more and more themselves.

The Greens want to expand outpatient care in underserved districts and stabilize access to general practitioners and specialists. Health centers and health kiosks are to bring medicine, prevention and nursing care together in one place. Family caregivers are to get more relief.

Some districts have too few doctors and care services. The Greens want more services there. There should be health centers with many services under one roof. People who care for relatives should get free courses and more help.

The Greens want to quickly expand hospice and palliative care in the state of Bremen because, in their view, it falls short given the growing number of older people. The expected federal rules on assisted dying are to be implemented and funded in Bremen.

Bremen has too few places for dying people. The Greens want more hospice places and more help against pain. Everyone should decide about the end of their own life. Bremen should carry out the new federal law on assisted dying.

In drug policy, the Greens rely on education, youth protection, decriminalization and addiction prevention. They want to set up a drug-checking service and quickly implement federal cannabis legalization in Bremen. Until then, prosecutors are to stop pursuing the offenses concerned.

The Greens want more education about drugs and addiction. People should be able to have drugs tested for poison. This is called drug checking. If the federal government allows cannabis, Bremen should act fast. Even before that, prosecutors should stop pursuing such cases.

The Greens want to buy new ambulance vehicles and expand the HanseSani service and telemedicine in emergency care. The numbers 116 117 and 112 are to be linked more closely so that callers are guided to the right help. A first-responder app is to alert nearby helpers in cases of cardiac arrest.

The Greens want to buy new ambulances. The HanseSani service should stay for good. It is meant to avoid unneeded trips to the hospital. The emergency numbers should work together better. An app should call first-aiders when someone's heart stops.

The Greens want people with disabilities to have equal access to health care. To that end, anyone who needs a personal assistant during a hospital stay should get one.

Some people need a support person in the hospital. This person helps them during treatment. The Greens want everyone who needs this help to get it. This should also apply to people who need long-term care.

The Greens want to substantially expand help for people addicted to drugs and replace the current temporary drug consumption room with a permanent, larger facility. More street workers and decentralized services are to be added. According to the platform, this should also reduce conflicts around the main station.

The Greens want more help for people addicted to drugs. There should be a permanent room where they can use drugs more safely. They also get advice and a doctor there. More social workers should help on the street.

The Greens want midwives with traditional vocational training to be able to earn a bachelor's degree easily. Three quarters of the degree program are to be credited on the basis of that training. This is meant to prevent disadvantages in pay and status compared with university-trained midwives.

Midwives now learn their job at a university. Before, there was job training instead. The Greens want that training to count for a lot in the degree. Then midwives can finish the degree while working. They should not earn less than others.

The Greens want to collect organic waste separately throughout Bremen and Bremerhaven so it can be recycled better and used for energy. To that end, the organic waste bin would become mandatory.

The Greens want to collect food and garden waste separately everywhere. The organic waste bin should become mandatory. This waste can be turned into energy. There should also be more containers for used glass.

The Left wants older people to be able to live in their own home and familiar neighborhood for as long as possible. To that end, local care and support services are to be built up, including public home care, starting in poorer neighborhoods.

Old people should be able to live at home for a long time. For this, help should be available nearby. The city should build up its own home care service. There should be new forms of housing for older people. The city should put up 1,000 new benches.

The Left wants to push at the federal level for a wage-replacement benefit for family caregivers equivalent to Elterngeld (parental allowance). It is meant to cushion financial hardship during the care period and contribute to a fairer distribution of care work.

Many people care for relatives at home. They often earn less then. The Left wants a caregiver allowance like the parental allowance. It replaces part of the wage. People should get it for 12 or 24 months.

The Left wants to give priority to nonprofit providers in elder care and, in the long run, transfer homes owned by financial investors to public hands. In its view, the profit motive leads to worse care and overburdened staff.

Many nursing homes belong to big companies and investors. The Left thinks this is wrong. Nursing homes should belong to the city or to nonprofit groups. The office that inspects the homes should get twice as many staff.

The Left wants to turn long-term care insurance at the federal level into full-coverage insurance so that people in nursing homes no longer have to use up their savings. A generally binding collective pay scale is to apply to all care workers.

Care in a nursing home is very expensive. Many people have to spend their savings on it. The Left wants care insurance to pay all costs. All care workers should be paid by a collective agreement.

The Left wants to create neighborhood health and care centers under public ownership, starting in districts hit hardest by poverty. Doctors, nurses, social workers, midwives and counselors are to work there under one roof. According to the program, the goal is to reduce health inequality between poor and wealthy districts.

Poor districts often have too few doctors. The Left wants to build new health centers there. The centers should belong to the city. Doctors, nurses, midwives and counselors work together there.

The Left wants to set up and expand midwife centers in the districts and create more university places for midwives. Through the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states), it seeks a nationwide solution for midwives' liability insurance. The program sees care at risk because of low pay and high insurance costs.

Many pregnant women cannot find a midwife. The Left wants more midwife centers in the districts. There should be more university places for midwives. The costly insurance for midwives should get new nationwide rules.

The Left wants to fund research on illnesses that mainly affect women. According to the program, medicine long treated the male body as the norm, which created knowledge gaps. An information drive is meant to raise awareness among medical staff and the public.

Medicine studied mostly men for a long time. So less is known about women's illnesses. The Left wants to fund more research on this. It also wants to inform doctors and the public better.

The Left wants a law that ensures Bremen has enough facilities for counseling on and performing abortions. According to the program, women often face long waits or have to go to other states.

Women in Bremen often wait a long time for an abortion. Some have to travel to another state. The Left wants to change that with a law. There should be enough clinics and counseling.

The Left wants to make the anonymous health voucher for people without legal residence status permanent. Language barriers are to be overcome with interpreters whose costs are covered. The program sees the right to health for people with a migration background restricted by hurdles.

Some people live in Bremen without valid papers. They can see a doctor with an anonymous health voucher. The Left wants to keep this for good. Interpreters should also help at the doctor's and be paid for.

The Left wants to remove barriers for people with disabilities in doctors' offices, hospitals and other health facilities. Examination equipment, communication and information are to be adapted to their needs. Their self-determination in care and inpatient facilities is to be guaranteed.

People with disabilities often have a hard time at the doctor's. The Left wants to remove obstacles in offices and hospitals. Information should come in plain language. People should be allowed to bring their assistants.

The Left wants to plan outpatient and inpatient care together instead of strictly separating the two. The new hospital plan is to rest on an analysis of needs in Bremen, Bremerhaven and the surrounding area. According to the program, the restructuring must lead neither to job cuts nor to outsourcing.

Doctors' offices and hospitals are planned separately today. The Left wants to plan both together. First, needs should be studied closely. Nobody should lose their job in the restructuring.

The Left wants to abolish hospital financing through flat per-case fees and replace it with funding that covers actual needs. It aims for a hospital system in public ownership without a profit motive. Bremen is to launch a Bundesrat initiative for this.

Hospitals now get a fixed amount per treatment. This is called a per-case fee. The Left wants to abolish it. Hospitals should get as much money as they need. They should belong to the state and make no profit.

The Left wants to keep state funding for hospital investment permanently at today's level, which the program says has doubled since 2019. The city is also to take over loans of the municipal hospital group GeNo for its partial replacement building.

Hospitals need money for buildings and equipment. The state gives twice as much today as in 2019. The Left wants to keep it that way for good. The city should also take over debts of the municipal hospitals.

The Left wants to concentrate emergency care in a few central, well-equipped emergency rooms at specialized hospitals. For cases that are not life-threatening, there are also to be evenly distributed outpatient sites. This is meant to use scarce staff better and relieve emergency rooms.

Bremen has eight emergency rooms. The Left wants a few large and very good ones. For milder cases, there should be emergency practices nearby. That gives staff more time for the seriously ill.

The Left proposes a workload compensation scheme for nurses in the municipal hospital group GeNo that amounts to a 35-hour week without loss of pay. This is meant to make the profession more attractive. Alongside it, the party calls for a hiring drive and more training.

Nurses in hospitals have a very heavy workload. The Left wants to cut their working hours. They should work 35 hours a week. Pay should stay the same. More nurses should also be hired and trained.

The Left wants to plan doctors' practice seats by district rather than for the city as a whole. Planning is to take into account factors such as poverty, unemployment and care needs. The program cites a lack of general practitioners and specialists in poorer districts.

Poor districts lack doctors. Today, planning covers the whole city at once. The Left wants to plan for each district separately. Poor districts should get more practices.

The Left wants Bremen to push at the federal level to remove the legal basis for practices run by private investors. The party is mainly opposed to private equity firms in outpatient care. In the state, a transparency register is to disclose ownership.

Some doctors' practices belong to financial firms. The Left does not want that. The federal government should ban such practices. In Bremen, a register should show who owns practices and care facilities.

The Left wants psychiatric care without coercion and violence and more outpatient care so that fewer hospital stays are needed. This includes a crisis service that can be reached around the clock and also visits people. The state law PsychKG is to be reviewed to see how protection from forced treatment can be strengthened.

The Left wants psychiatric care without coercion and violence. People with mental health problems should get more help outside the hospital. A crisis service should be reachable day and night. There should be enough therapy places.

The Left wants to further expand the public health service (ÖGD) and gear it toward health promotion and prevention. Federal money from the pact for the public health service is to be used for this. A health plan for Bremen is meant to coordinate existing prevention programs better.

The public health service includes the local health offices. The Left wants to expand it further. It should help people stay healthy. There should be more staff for this. A plan should link all services better.

The Left wants to relieve family caregivers through more professional care and local counseling. Municipal health and care centers and the “Pflege im Quartier” (care in the neighborhood) concept are meant to make care work more of a public task.

Many people care for their relatives themselves. Most of them are women. The Left wants to help them. There should be more care services close to home. The city should also be planned better for families.

The Left supports legalizing cannabis and selling it in a controlled way with strong youth protection, and wants further decriminalization in Bremen. Addiction is to be met with help, education and prevention rather than repression.

The Left thinks the ban on cannabis has failed. Cannabis should be legal and sold under control. People who use drugs should not be treated like criminals. People with addiction should get help.

The Left wants to expand substitution programs for people addicted to drugs and set up a diamorphine clinic for the most severely addicted. Bremen should also get a drug-checking service to reduce risks from contaminated substances.

The Left wants more help for people addicted to drugs. They should be able to get substitute drugs from a doctor. There should be a special clinic for people with severe addiction. It gives them pure diamorphine, which is medical heroin. People should also be able to have their drugs tested.

The Left wants to develop pilot projects for the controlled dispensing of crack. It also calls for tolerance zones and permanent rest and consumption rooms instead of merely pushing the drug scene away from the main station.

Many people use the drug crack near Bremen's main station. The Left wants to test handing out crack in a controlled way. There should be fixed rooms where people can rest and use drugs. The party does not want to just push people away from the station.

The Left wants to keep the municipal hospital group Gesundheit Nord (GeNo) financially secure. Its restructuring should neither worsen care nor burden staff; the federal government should reorganize hospital financing.

Gesundheit Nord runs city hospitals in Bremen. The Left wants it to get enough money. Care for patients should not get worse. Nurses should earn more.

The Left wants to make meals in daycare centers and schools free and shift public canteens to regional, seasonal, and organic food. In the party's view, healthy eating should not depend on income.

The Left wants free meals in daycare centers and schools. The food should be healthy and come from the region. There should be less meat. The city should have drinking fountains everywhere.

The Left wants to turn the Bremen-Nord hospital into one offering the full range of medical care and keep its care for premature babies. Access to pediatricians and specialists is also to improve.

The Left wants to expand the hospital in Bremen-Nord. It should offer all important treatments. The unit for premature babies should stay. There should be more children's doctors and specialists.

The Left wants to preserve and expand the public Reinkenheide hospital in Bremerhaven. To counter a looming shortage of doctors, it calls for a framework plan based on actual need.

Bremerhaven has one public hospital. The Left wants to keep and expand it. Bremerhaven will soon lack doctors. The Left wants a plan to fix that.

The SPD wants to improve working conditions in nursing care and health care and to push at the federal level for a reform of how they are financed. It should be possible to make collective agreements binding for the whole sector. Health services, medical technology and research are also to be linked more closely through the Gesundheitscampus (health campus).

Very many people work in care and hospitals, mostly women. The SPD wants better pay and better working conditions for them. Union wage agreements should be able to apply to all employers in the sector. The federal government should fund care and health better. Research, technology and hospitals should work together more closely.

The SPD wants prisoners to remain in the statutory health insurance system while in custody. This is meant to ease rehabilitation and secure medical care of equal quality. For mentally ill prisoners, it calls for inpatient treatment places.

Prisoners should stay in public health insurance. Federal laws must be changed for this. Mentally ill prisoners should get into a clinic quickly. For this there should be at least one reserved bed outside the prison.

The SPD considers the welfare associations' service centers indispensable and wants to examine whether they can be linked with employment projects. Counseling on housing and dementia is to be funded according to need, and the care support centers are to be expanded at the neighborhood level.

More and more people need help in daily life. Service centers provide this help. The SPD wants to check whether job projects can help there too. Advice on housing, dementia and care should get enough money. Care advice should be offered in more neighborhoods.

The SPD wants to extend the municipal coverage of costs for prescribed contraceptives to additional low-income groups. In the party's view, family planning should not depend on how much money someone has.

Bremen pays for birth control for some people. So far this applies to people on welfare, for example. The SPD wants to include more people. These include students with state aid and people who get housing benefits.

The SPD wants to draw lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare Bremen for future crises. Protective equipment is to be kept in stock, vaccination infrastructure maintained, and a crisis team kept ready for rapid deployment.

The SPD wants to prepare Bremen for new pandemics. Masks and protective clothing should be kept in storage. There should still be staff and places for vaccination. A crisis team should be able to start quickly. A crisis team is a group that decides in an emergency.

The SPD wants enough rehab places and interdisciplinary outpatient clinics for people with long Covid. For children and adolescents, it plans to expand school psychology, creative therapy and physical activity programs, because the platform says they suffered especially during the pandemic.

Some people stay sick for a long time after Covid. This is called long Covid. The SPD wants enough rehab places and clinics for them. Children and teenagers should get more help at school. There should also be more programs for exercise.

The SPD wants reliable working hours, less overtime and higher wages in nursing care. The aim is to keep care workers in the profession or bring them back, since the platform sees sufficient staff as the key condition for good care.

The SPD wants better jobs in nursing care. Care workers should be able to go home on time. They should work less overtime. They should also earn more money. Then more people will stay in the job.

The SPD wants to attract more people to nursing training and reduce dropouts. Training for care aides and assistants is to be structured so that the path to becoming a registered nurse is open, with credit for prior training.

The SPD wants to train more people in nursing care. People who are about to quit training should get help. Care aides should be able to become nurses more easily. What they have already learned should count.

The SPD sees entry-level opportunities for refugees and immigrants as key to getting more nursing staff. It wants to offer language training and recognize foreign qualifications without red tape.

Nursing care lacks many workers. The SPD wants refugees and immigrants to work in care. They should get German classes for the job. Degrees from other countries should count more easily.

Beyond nursing, the SPD wants to support other health professions: midwives, medical assistants and therapists. It justifies this with the continuing need for staff in these fields.

The SPD also wants to support other health jobs. These include midwives and assistants in doctors' offices. They also include therapists. Doctors' offices should train more people.

The SPD wants to use state money to support training for so-called Pflege-Guides (care guides), who advise employees with relatives in need of care at their workplaces. It expects the federal government to cover nursing training costs from taxes so that out-of-pocket contributions fall.

Many people care for relatives and also have a job. Care guides advise them at work. The SPD wants more care guides to be trained. The state should give money for this. The federal government should pay for nursing training from taxes.

The SPD wants women and couples seeking an abortion to get information and fast, good care close to home. Hospital planning is to guarantee this.

Some women want to end a pregnancy. The SPD wants them to get good information. They should find help quickly and close to home. Hospital planning should take this into account.

The SPD wants to create more local health centers and health kiosks that bring together advice, prevention and support in the neighborhood. It argues that health risks differ in size by district and population group.

The SPD wants more health centers in the neighborhoods. People can get advice there about illness and care. The centers should be easy to reach. Schools should get more health workers.

The SPD wants to use incentives to bring more family doctors, pediatricians and psychotherapists to districts with too few practices. The state authority is to have a targeted say in how physician slots are filled.

Some neighborhoods lack family doctors and children's doctors. The SPD wants to attract young doctors there. For example, they could get help with rent. The state should have a say in where practices open. More practices should be barrier-free.

The SPD wants to push providers focused mainly on returns out of medical care. In the platform's view, financial investors are increasingly buying up practices and medical care centers and have little interest in care that covers the whole area.

Some companies buy doctors' offices to make a lot of money. The SPD wants to push this back. The cities should set up their own care centers. A register should show who owns the practices.

The SPD wants patient counseling that depends neither on health insurers nor on health care companies and is organized regionally. Counseling on dementia is also to be strengthened and expanded.

Patients sometimes need advice, for example after treatment mistakes. The SPD wants independent counseling. It should not depend on insurers or companies. There should also be more counseling about dementia.

The SPD calls on the federal government for a new approach to hospital financing and backs the federal government's reform plans. In the state budget, investment in hospitals is to rise every year, and surpluses are to stay in the hospital system.

The SPD wants hospitals to be paid in a different way. Doctors should decide based on what patients need, not on money. The state should put more money into hospitals every year. Profits should stay in the hospital.

The SPD wants to keep all sites of the municipal hospital group Gesundheit Nord (GeNo) while establishing a division of labor with clear specializations among Bremen's hospitals. GeNo is to continue its restructuring and reduce its deficits.

The SPD wants to keep all sites of the city-owned hospitals. Each hospital should have its own focus areas. The hospitals should work together better. The city-owned hospitals should lose less money.

The SPD wants to build outpatient emergency care as cooperation on equal terms between hospitals and doctors in private practice. It is to be geared to the needs of the districts and regions in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

In emergencies, hospitals and doctors' offices should work closely together. Both should have an equal say. The help should fit the neighborhoods. First, there should be a careful check of where the problems are.

The SPD wants psychiatric care in Bremen to be organized more on an outpatient and regional basis. Binding community psychiatry networks with regional budgets are meant to coordinate services so that the support system is no longer fragmented.

The SPD wants to change mental health care. More help should take place outside the hospital. Help should be close to where people live. Providers in a district should work together in a fixed way. There should be enough money for this.

The SPD wants to do more to prevent addiction and to expand counseling. Addiction counseling centers are to get more staff, and self-help groups are to receive support.

The SPD wants to do more against addiction. There should be more prevention. Counseling centers should get more staff. Self-help groups should also get support.

The SPD wants low-threshold drug services to be easier to reach, including in the evening. Drug consumption rooms are to be equipped according to need.

The SPD wants better help for people who use drugs. The help should also be open in the evening. There are rooms where people can use drugs under supervision. These rooms should be well equipped.

The SPD wants a comprehensive reform of the public health service (ÖGD) and a new definition of its tasks. According to the program, budget cuts and unattractive jobs led to staff losses, so staff are to be recruited across all medical professions.

The SPD wants to strengthen the public health offices. The SPD says they lack staff. Too much was cut in the past. The offices should hire more experts. Working there should become more attractive.

The SPD wants the public health offices to inspect hygiene in medical practices, nursing homes, and hospitals more often. Prevention and health promotion in neighborhoods, schools, and daycare centers are to be strengthened, and a permanent vaccination infrastructure is to be built.

The health offices should take on more tasks. They should check hygiene in practices, care homes, and hospitals more often. Neighborhoods, schools, and daycare centers should have more health workers. There should be permanent places to get vaccinated.

The SPD wants to secure staffing for health reporting (GBE) and expand it so that health policy rests on evidence. The public health service is also to get better technical and digital equipment.

The SPD wants to collect more data on the health of people in Bremen. There should be enough staff for this. Politicians should decide based on this data. The health offices should get better digital technology.

The SPD wants to organize care so that people can grow old in familiar surroundings. All care services are to focus on their neighborhood, cooperate on a binding basis, and close gaps; the start will be pilot projects in selected neighborhoods.

Many people want to stay at home when they are old. So the SPD wants to organize care in each neighborhood. Providers there should work together in a fixed way. First there will be trials in some neighborhoods. Later this should apply in all of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The Bremen SPD calls for a federal reform of long-term care. Statutory and private care insurance are to be merged into a single Bürgerversicherung (citizens' insurance), benefits are to rise, and the co-payments of people in need of care are to be capped.

The SPD wants to change care insurance across Germany. There should be just one insurance for everyone. This is called citizens' insurance. The state should add more money. People who need care should pay less themselves.

The SPD wants to expand the Pflegestützpunkte (care support centers) so that counseling is available right in the district. People in need of care should also be able to have a personal care adviser who draws up an individual care plan.

The SPD wants more advice on care in the districts. The care support centers should offer consultation hours there. People who need care should be able to have a personal adviser. This person makes a plan for their help.

The SPD wants to expand care services in Bremen, especially day, night, short-term, and respite care that support care at home. Regular care reporting is to track demand, and higher subsidies for investment costs are to encourage new services.

The SPD says Bremen has too few care services. There should be more day care and short-term care. Shared care apartments should also get support. The state should give money for new places. Regular reports should show what is needed.

The SPD wants to create more training places for registered nurses and care assistants to address staff shortages. At the federal level, Bremen is to push for collective bargaining coverage in the care sector.

Care lacks staff. So the SPD wants to create more training places. Fewer people should drop out of training. Care workers should be paid under collective agreements everywhere. Bremen wants to push for this at the federal level.

The SPD wants to ease the burden on nursing home residents by having the state of Bremen cover investment costs, for example through a needs-based Pflegewohngeld (care housing allowance). The state is also to monitor investment costs more closely.

People in nursing homes also pay for the building. These are called investment costs. The SPD wants the state of Bremen to cover these costs. One way is a care housing allowance for people with little money. The state should also check these costs more closely.

The SPD wants federal and EU rules to limit the activity of profit-oriented national care providers, especially private equity firms. In Bremen, the housing and care supervisory authority is to get more staff, and protection standards are to be checked more strictly.

Some large companies want to make high profits with nursing homes. The SPD says problems are more common there. It wants new rules for these companies. The authority that supervises homes should get more staff. It should check the homes more strictly.

The SPD wants to make Bremen a model region for the digital health industry. To that end, research, industry and health care providers are to work together more closely, and companies in the sector are to be attracted to the state.

The SPD wants a stronger health industry in Bremen. Bremen should be a model for digital medicine. Researchers and companies should work together more closely. New health companies should move to Bremen.

The SPD wants to sharply limit profit-seeking in health care and nursing care and will push for this at the federal level. In Bremen and Bremerhaven, municipal and nonprofit facilities are to be strengthened. The platform holds that health and care are public services, not commodities.

The SPD wants less profit-seeking in health care and nursing care. It will push for this at the national level. In Bremen it wants to strengthen city-run facilities. Nonprofit facilities should also be strengthened. Nonprofit means they do not work to make a profit.

The SPD calls for a climate plan for the state of Bremen and its two cities that links health and climate policy. Hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities are to draw up their own climate plans and use fewer resources. The platform argues that climate change makes people sick.

The SPD wants a climate plan for the state of Bremen. Hospitals and nursing homes should make their own climate plans. They should use less energy and material. The SPD says climate change makes people sick.

The SPD wants a heat action plan for the state of Bremen. It is to include a warning system for heat events and to protect and care for especially vulnerable people.

The SPD wants a heat plan for Bremen. The plan should warn people about extreme heat. It should protect people who are most at risk. These are old or sick people, for example.